We Are Not Alone | Sheetal Prajapati

Special Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

We Are Not Alone, Sheetal Prajapati (Brooklyn, NY)
July 2016. Installation: buttons, string, velcro, fabric, wooden dowels, pegboard, LED lights, Lite-Brite pegs.

We Are Not Alone allows visitors to encounter Elsewhere and its collection in intimate ways – welcoming participants to consider their relationship to the universe through object-based experiences.

Influenced by the Southern Constellations program and her own zodiac sign, Prajapati’s site specific piece is a two-part installation, both interactive and meditative. Behind a Gemini constellation curtain hanging beneath a set of stairs, Not Alone‘s first floor component invites participants to create their own constellations on a custom-made light board or with button clusters sewn by the artist.

In the museum’s second floor Alone Zone, the artist recreated another Gemini constellation as a hanging mobile with clusters of buttons sewn together by the site’s original owner and operator, Sylvia Gray. Twin iconographies serve as visual meditations on the notion of being alone with oneself and expressing the multiple identities one embodies.

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Sheetal Prajapati
Sheetal Prajapati

Sheetal Prajapati is an artist and educator, raised in Kentucky, educated in Chicago, and now living in Brooklyn. She's currently Assistant Director for Learning and Artists Initiatives at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) but works across the field organizing, making and thinking with herself and others. Her creative practice explores notions of intimacy and identity through an investigation of material processes. She's interested in the circumstances and conditions that welcome meaningful experiences and wonders about our relationship to the spiritual and cosmic worlds. She's interested in you, the stars, and making strangers talk each other.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Prajapati created We Are Not Alone.

Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency
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