By Vanshika Babbar
Part of the exhibition
Critical Zones. In Search of a Common Ground.
The work features a set of interactive screens that will receive inputs of the audiences’ faces and display them after processing them through an array of AR face filters. These filters are sually used to 'enhance' facial features but here they compel the audience to face the roles that humans have been relegated to by anthropocenic discourse: those of observers, survivors, victims. Thereby the filters suggest to reflect on what it means to be complicit in the events of enviromental change.
© Vanshika Babbar
Vanshika Babbar is an artist based in New Delhi. She works with video and video installations, painting, amongst others. Her practice engages with the political dimensions of subjective formations; working with material ranging from found footage and objects collected from popular media sources and domestic spaces respectively. While her thematic concerns have varied, her underlying interests have emerged out of the need for interrogating the condition of middleclassness, the social absurdities of life under the Capital relation, and the violence that pervades everyday life. Vanshika completed her Bachelors' in Visual Arts form Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda; and Masters' in Visual Arts from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She has been a part of exhibitions such as The Students' Biennale 2022 and 2020; and is currently working as an art consultant for the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.
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