WEAVING LIGHT

Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer describes that the functioning of the engine's is programmed by punch cards, she wrote: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."

Keeping tales alive, Archana Hande is a wanderer, seeker, researcher, and adventurer. Stories, resources, and conversations that she encounters while traveling helps to recreate her travel experiences. Throughout the course of this show, she delves into one such journey: Archana has persistently studied and quantified the impact and influence of technology. Finding the minute details and piecing together the vast array of changes that are missed is Archana's mission. She discusses with us the much-seen and much-unseen changes using the medium of Jacquard punching cards as she takes us along with her to explore this specific journey. Jacquard card perforations allow for the creation of forms and shapes that are characterized by the dance of light and shadow. Her play on understanding changes via multiple levels of human knowledge is shown through the structure, forms, and shapes created by the movement of light and shadow through the perforations of Jacquard cards. How our surroundings, including cities, customs, and civilizations, are ever-changing. She examines how these developments affect human skills, patterns of settlements and resources by delving further into materiality and the archives of her travels. Through the use of light and shadow, Archana tells a tale that enables us to examine the results of her research in greater detail; as she arranges the many nuances —- of language, material and dialogue literally and figuratively.

Rucha Vibhute 2024

Weaving Light (2009-2024) Jacquard perforated punching cards (plastic/cardboard) and timer lights Variation 2

Acknowledgement: Jacquard weavers; Kumar; R Ramesh; Jayram; Rudresh

Individuals: Mahak Sethia; Madhusree Dutta; Rucha Vibhute; Santosh Pattar; Suresh Jayaram; Sridevi Mallappa; Vinayak S Katenahalli; Vineesh Amin; Kavana Badrinath; Kiran Athma, Mohamed Rizvan.

Timer light: Emsys Electronics

Institutions: Gallery Sumukha; 1Shanthiroad; Atelier Prati

About the Artist

Archana Hande She holds a B.F.A in print making, from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, (1986-1991) and an M.F.A in print making from M.S University, Baroda, India (1991-1993). She has been awarded Charles Wallace India Trust Arts Awards, Residency in Glasgow school of arts in the year 2000, Research Residency, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland 2010. Research project: Spaced 2: future recall with Spaced (Perth) and Asialink (Melbourne) reciprocal exchange program, Western Australia; 2014-16

She had many solo shows, few major ones are: ‘I am a Landscape Painter’: Bombay; ‘The Golden Feral Trail’: Perth and Laverton, WA, Australia; ‘All is Fair in Magic White’: Delhi & Rome 2010; ‘www.arrangeurownmarriage.com’: Bombay, China, Finland, Sweden 2008- 2012; ‘Relics of Grey’: Bombay

She has participated in many international and national group shows few mentioned are: ‘In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire’, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 05, Kochi (2022-23); ‘Thinking Historically in the Present’, Sharjah Biennial 15, (2023); ‘This Too, is a Map’, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, (2023); Sculpture Park Jaipur 2018-19; “Social Fabric”, INIVA, UK, Sweden, Germany, India; “Shadow Lines”, Biennale Jogja XI, Jakarta; ‘So Close Yet So Far Away’, Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale; ‘SAMTIDIGT’, (concurrent), Sweden, Finland; 'Farewell to Post-Colonialism', The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial; The Edge of Desire: Recent art in India, Australia, New York, Mexico city, Monterrey; ’Art Circus’ Yokohama Triennial, Japan...