NEWS | SAVINDER BUAL

My overall practice is driven by my fascination with the illusory qualities inherent in cinema and early animation. Imagining myself as a cinema pioneer I explore the interplay between the moving and the still, creating works that sit between the pre-cinematic and the digital.

By discovering low-fi ways to add movement to single images and commonplace objects/materials, my intent is to ignite an element of wonder at the illusion of cinema, giving the everyday enough of a twist to allow the imagination to run free.

We live in a society where the material is being replaced by the immaterial. This has drawn me to use tangible everyday materials in my work that I juxtapose with the relative immateriality of video. Behind the scenes of my videos there are various hand-crafted mechanisms that drive them that are hand-operated/cranked.

In recent years I have made kinetic works for audience interaction that have been shown internationally including Turner Contemporary, Margate, U.K, 1shanthiroad, Bangalore, India and Basement 6, Shanghai, China.

Savinder Bual unravels the magic, and the history(s) of cinema through ingenious mechanical illusions'

An online programme of moving image works by Savinder Bual on XVIIX.com

Curated by Amy Dickson and Jamie Jenkinson

https://www.xviix.com/

Jerwood Bursary recipient, 2020
https://jerwoodarts.org/

a-n Artist Bursary recipient, 2020
https://www.a-n.co.uk/

I am part way through a R&D residency on the Isle of Sheppey developing new work for Whitstable Biennale in June 2021
https://www.whitstablebiennale.com/

The Pineapple Project will be performed and exhibited at Space Studio, Baroda, India in 2021.

Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki
https://www.delfinafoundation.com/in-residence/veeranganakumari-solanki/