Srinivas Mangipudi

Artists note

We are an artist couple from India and Peru, experimenting painting together since 2008, and finally we have reached a stage where we feel comfortable with this conversation, integrating our visual approaches.

From invented, heuristic alphabets that metamorphose into geometries, anthropomorphic, animal or plant figures to flat paint and colors that mesh into the construction. And in an interaction, there are elated peaks, calm breeze, silence.

A dialog implies an exchange.

This work realises our interest in a vision which is non-referential and carries no effects of affirmations or beliefs, in a way trying to neutralize that which is familiar from a primordial soup of forms. We consider this process to be transformative, as in the nature of augmenting the possibilities of collaborative exploration and offering a chance for the enquiry to come and express itself, un-framing the image of reference.

Our Bios:

Enit María ( Lima, 1978 ) began her image exploration observing the journey of light in her lensless handmade cameras which inculcated in having minimum or no control on composition and instead enable diverse possibilities for light to render the subject. Working in collaboration on painting allows her to continue with this scheme, where the unexpected is highly regarded.

She is a co-founder of Goa Center for Alternative Photography Goa CAP in India and member of ACSAF photo collective in Florence.

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Srinivas Mangipudi ( Nagpur, 1975 ) pursued drawing in an effort to understand the workings of mind, body and spirit. He realised cognitive drawing to be a powerful tool to bring to surface and untapped potential that rests within, thus fueling his research interest. Collaborative drawing/painting as a duo opens up this research to question and reinforce the existence of universal thought and aesthetic by studying decision making heuristics as a core practice.

Srinivas was selected as an Open sessions fellow at The Drawing Center NY ( 2016 - 2017) and was a recipient of Aprofundamento annual art fellowship 2014 at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro. He was comissioned by the National Library of Brazil to paint a 60 x 3 meter mural in 2014.




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