An Ecology of Practice

How do artistic practices take shape? Are they shaped solely through individual intention, or through the relations, routines, interruptions, and acts of attention that continually expand what we understand as the studio?

Centered around the artwork Pouched Presences — a work that has unfolded over several years through fragments of images, accumulated markings, and repeated returns — this participatory gathering invites artists into a shared space of making as a responsive process.

The questions guiding the gathering are proposed by Meher Vahid, an artist participating in the Dom Art Projects Studio Support Programme, and emerge from her interest in creating a supportive environment for artistic exchange. Through guided prompts and collective engagement, participants are invited to meet one another, share their practices and ongoing projects, briefly inhabit the studio together, and engage in open dialogue around the habits, gestures, and conditions that shape their ways of working.

Rather than finished outcomes, the gathering invites reflection on continuity and change. Drawing on contemporary ideas of correspondence, situated knowledge, orientation, and becoming, the gathering asks: what if artistic practice is not a sequence of outcomes, but an ecology in formation?

Open to artists working across disciplines and at different stages of their practice.

Meher Afroz Vahid is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, photography, collage, painting, text, sculpture, and installation. Attuned to the sensory as a point of origin, her work investigates the formative and transitory layers of existence through close observation of material, environment, and processes of change. She is a participant in the Dom Art Projects Studio Support Programme.

Free admission with registration