Alisha Ekta Reddy is currently completing her Bachelor of Visual Arts degree at the Auckland University of Technology, where she majors in sculptural practices. Reddy’s practice resides within an ‘active space’ of making where process meets material. Within this site of making, the experience of becoming and being is nurtured in its purest form. Here, within a seemingly infinite fantasy exists that within which possibility and opportunity do not necessarily have a beginning or an end. Reddy aims to access a beyond, a virtual fold, a new plane of life, perpetually escaping into a world anew. 

 

Her most recent work, Disruptions (2021), manifests through material-site and non-site contingencies, which concern potential matter and incidental happenings. The work addresses the realm of possibility found within discarded remnants of everyday encounters by engaging with material processes, orchestrated situations, and disrupted conditions of the real. As the materials are revealed within their immediate environment, their coherent body is shaped by peculiar progressions and entropic implications of their process. In this sense, while the experience of becoming is being constructed, the conditions in which they emerge are also constantly redefined. All the while, cosmic ambitions are dissolved into reality, as the work's own being becomes nothing other than itself.