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.
New work for Whitstable Biennale 2022
11th of June until 19th of June
https://www.frieze.com/article/whitstable-biennale-2022-review
9 Notes
Now available on PEER's website, 9 Notes is a publication that introduces some of the ideas and concerns that fuel my practice. The publication includes an essay by Alex Hetherington titled, The Student Of Hallucinations, The Absent, Moon And The Law Of The Feather.
Kindly supported by Arts Council England and PEER, London
Arts Foundation 2022 Fellow in Animation
Exploring artist animation, expanded animation and experimental animation as an arts practice.
https://artsfoundation.co.uk/affas/2022
“Savinder's voice is a vital and necessary one for the field, pointing to its future whilst drawing on its past." - Edwin Roston
The Train Effect
28th of May until 4th of September at Didcot Railway Centre
Meeting Point Commission, Arts & Heritage