Sriwhana Spong

Sriwhana Spong’s practice moves between film, painting, performance and sculpture, and explores modes of following (how to approach a subject) and framing (how to understand it). Her works are often sparked by an encounter; most recently, a rat nesting outside her bedroom window; a newly discovered species of snake; a painting by her grandfather, the Balinese painter, I Gusti Made Rundu; and a twelfth-century Javanese poem. The traces of these encounters are filtered through processes of (un)knowing—experiential, scientific—in order to critically examine her own position, and how this might contribute to a collective and feminist understanding of an entangled cosmos.