Past Exhibition
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This is a durational performance over four hours, and audiences are welcome to drop in and out of the performance.
Devika Bilimoria courts a practice of performance, dance, moving image, photography and installation to explore notions of queering, time and materiality. Raised in Naarm/Melbourne, they combine practices of Bharatanatyam, theatre, live art, and visual art with lived experiences of South Asian diaspora, through queer, feminist and cosmic perspectives. Central to their practice is a concept of ‘body-ing’, which places formations of matter in perpetual movement, affecting and affected by forces of sociality, texture, pressure, light, and chance. By enlisting chance methods, duration and somatic listening as tools of making, they strive to agitate embodiments of separateness, hierarchies, and gestures across socio-cultural conditions, moving toward slower and attuned ways of being.
Bilimoria has shown works in Melbourne, Australia including the Museum of Australian Photography; the National Portrait Gallery; Incinerator Gallery; Blindside Gallery; and Dancehouse. They have created award-winning works, been a finalist for numerous awards and commissioned by festivals such as PHOTO International Festival of Photography (2022); Flash Forward (2021); Sangam: Performing Arts Festival of South Asia & Diaspora (2019); and Mapping Melbourne (2018). In 2022, Bilimoria was the recipient of the Rodger Davies Award for their performance installation Offerings from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
