About The Talk
At the 110th ARTCaffè, Rasengani explores how bodies, movement, memory, and materials shape our understanding of place, belonging, and home.
In his talk, he discusses his use of architectural and industrial materials—including glass, reclaimed timber, steel, aluminium, concrete, plaster, and reflective surfaces—to create sculptures, kinetic works, vessels, and spatial environments that exist somewhere between the functional, the sculptural, and the architectural.
Movement plays a central role in his practice, both as a subject and a methodology. Through walking, tracing routes, and collaborating with dancers, Rasengani approaches the body as an archive shaped by social, architectural, and historical pressures. He is particularly drawn to transitional states: light passing through glass, reflections shifting with the body, incense smoke rising through space, and forms activated by motion.
Across bodies of work including Rituals of Dwelling, Held Smoke and Faithful Topographies, Reflected Hope, and Tapestry of Faith, his practice asks how memory, ritual, material, and movement can be assembled into forms of dwelling—understood not as a fixed location, but as something continually constructed through gesture, rhythm, and movement.