Monica Rani Rudhar
Monica Rani Rudhar
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Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist working on Gadigal Land, creating works across video, performance and sculpture.
Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work speaks to longing and loss as she navigates the cultural disconnection that stems from the complexities of her multi-racial ethnicity.
Her work is delicately personal and takes the shape of a restorative autobiographical archive that seeks to record her own histories where these stories can exist permanently, unlike those that have been passed down orally from her family which remain fragmented. Her practice attempts to restore familial histories, traditions and rituals that have been dispersed by migration and draws on the labor required to move passed the barriers that stand in the way of reforging these connections.
About Monica's work
About Monica's work
I Watched You Make Them When I Was Younger
I Watched You Make Them When I Was Younger
I Watched You Make Them When I Was Younger is a work that speaks to memory and belonging. Made of chillies, beads, star anise, and terracotta, the work echoes the smells, scents and textures of my up brining and heritage. Whilst making this work, I was thinking about the security doors and windows I would watch my father make when I was younger whilst he worked from my family home garage. I watched him closely as he constructed these big aluminium frames which he would then line with a diamond patterned grill and mesh. This work draws on themes of domesticity, loss and the labour involved in connecting to my Indian and familial roots.
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The artwork takes the shape of a security door, rug or portal. It has a thick border of dried red chillies, with a diamond pattern in the middle made of black beads and star anise. It is hung on a wooden rod from gold terracotta rings that are attached to a brown railing on the roof. It has a bottom fringe made of beads.
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