Encircling and Entangled; Engulfing the knot, 2022-2023
'Look for the Rapture' extract below from a written work in response to 'Encircling' by Dr Jane Boyer of the Cloud Collective
'...Tanvi’s artwork is infused with this quality of pleasure in creativity on a journey to
self-exploration. It expresses a tactile pleasure of material and of repetitive
process. The act of intimacy in this pleasure, that of solitary thinking, is evident in
the work. We can see this in Encircling – Engulfing the knot (2023) for example.
What appears at first glance to be a haphazard bundle of string, on closer
inspection is carefully and thoughtfully constructed materiality that uses a variety
of thickness, texture, and colour to form a flexible and adorned cord. This cord is
then placed in such a way to occupy its space sculpturally. Its coiled and knotted
presence is an intentional exploration of the way a flexible line can define the
space it inhabits; how it can encircle and delimit space. It demonstrates how
castoff materials can bind together to form a solid whole taking on new qualities,
characteristics, and identities of purpose. It is a statement on the nature of
flexibility coming from the melding of difference. Through Tanvi’s creative
pleasure, what was a castaway of remnant material, thread, and beads turns into
a unified emotive and symbolic ligature...'
Dr Jane Bower, 2024.
