Sifr
Sifr denies and claims totality at the same time. It is a rebellious figure that refuses fixity and binary to find movement in stillness. The whirling dervish reverberats energy of a restless particle that captures the gravitational dynamics of the universe and its smallest of its constituents. Zero is the ether to Gunjan Kumar, an all-pervading vessel that is able to contain the unrest of all the worlds, and the calm after the storm. Sifr finds form in its subtractive aesthetics, in primary colours and cone, a primary form whose essential constituent is movement, each spiral flick of the hand collapsing into its formation. In times of unrest marked by collective mobilization on one hand and annihilation on the other, in Sifr we are able to find affective modalities of dialoguing with one another, the calm of acceptance and quiet determination in the motions of a lone studio process, tethered to the world around us.
—Excerpt from essay by Anushka Rajendran