Abirami Logendran uses the grid as a method for organising her personal image archive. Found material from film and popular culture is brought into relation through various grid structures. Meaning arises not within the individual cell, but in the contrasts and connections between them.
Rosalind Krauss has described the grid as a structure capable of holding contradictions in tension without resolving them: the seemingly rational and the mythic, the material and the spiritual, coexist within the same form. In Logendran’s work, this capacity becomes productive as a diasporic aesthetic. To live across cultures, languages and geographies is to navigate precisely such a tension: a simultaneity in which different references and perspectives mutually give each other meaning.
Abirami Logendran (b. 1992) is an artist, curator and writer based in Oslo. She holds an MA in Screen Cultures from the University of Oslo and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and has previously had solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Oslo and K4. Logendran is a film curator at Kunstnernes Hus and editor-in-chief of the Norwegian Art Yearbook. She has also curated programs for the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, e-flux Screening Room, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, among others. Her film and art criticism appears in publications including Kunstkritikk, Kunstavisen and Klassekampen.