For years, within the quiet sanctuary of his Mumbai studio, one of India’s leading contemporary artists, Jitish Kallat has practiced a private ritual. It begins with the Hilbert Curve — a mathematical marvel of a fractal line that twists and turns until it occupies every corner of its space. But for Kallat, the drawing is only the beginning. By igniting the line outdoors, he invites the world in. As the flames dance, directed by the unpredictable shifts of the local winds, they leave behind a scorched “transcript” — a physical record of a silent conversation between wind and fire
Today, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, as part of our long running program to support artists’ experimentation with technology, Jitish Kallat invites you inside his Mumbai studio with Wind Study, a new interactive drawing experience. Reimagining Kallat’s Wind Study in a virtual environment, it invites you to draw with real-time atmospheric data, generating dynamic, ever-evolving digital wind studies.
