Photograph by Xiaohan Ning
Swati Piparsania is a designer and educator whose work incorporates making objects and devising movement. In her studio practice, she builds floors, mattresses, shoes, and pants that inscribe the dynamics for performance as well as its dysfunction. These objects elevate, bend, hide and restrict parts of the body that engages in a monotonous task. In choreographing an unfamiliarity with one’s own body she brings attention to the familiar and learnt movement and gesture. She utilizes elements of sculpture, dance and theatre to research and develop a series of sculptural propositions that critique a body’s inherent design and its choreography in space. This inquiry through quotidian objects reinvents them, making anew ordinary social experience.
Swati (b. Bhilai, India) has worked as a furniture designer at two leading modular interior firms in India: Homelane and Livspace. She currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute. She has previously taught as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University and as an AICAD Teaching Fellow at Pratt institute. She has received her MFA in 3D design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and her diploma in Furniture and Spatial Design from Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology, India. She has presented her work at various venues including Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, PACT Zollverein in Essen, Kenyon College in Ohio, and School of Form in Poland.
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