ARTIST STATEMENT
Hello, I’m Sridevi (they/them) and I am a creator & community worker that is currently settled in Tio'tia:ke (Montréal). I am a queer and trans/non-binary person of Indian descent with studies in psychology, studio arts, anthropology, and Indian art & craft traditions.
My artistic, craft and research practices explore the cloudy in-between areas of divinity/mundanity manifest, corporeality and embodiment, and (tr)ancestral tradition. I hope to play within these themes through research and storytelling, by turning to Shaiva-Shakti Tantric Mysticism, (her)stories, traditions, mythologies, and folk art in order to offer transformational reclaiming back to our diasporic, queer & trans community.
By turning to these mythological stories of the past, I seek to break apart the common oppressive narratives that dominate and instead offer a gender subversive, Shakti-centered retelling; where I foresee our future lies. Similarly, I dig down into my lineage as an anchoring for our collective liberation and acension. In these ways, traditions are embodied and divinity is brought to Earth. I look to these other worlds as a source of imagination for what we can create.
I understand the Self as firmly embedded within the greater collective, to whom I am humbly devoted to.
