DEVIKA BILIMORIA

PERFORMANCEOfferings, 2023
Offerings, 2022
ALAKKALA, 2019
H:O:M:E, 2018
Mokita, 2017

MOVING IMAGEUntitled 02, 2022
Untitled, 2022
INTERWORLD, 2021
smooth-time, 2020
Portal of Possibilities, 2020
A Utah Time Signature, 2019
Book of Dream, 2018
A Los Angeles Time Signature, 2018
An Arctic Time Signature, 2015

INSTALLATIONBurial, 2023
Murti, 2018
The Moving Image, 2017

PHOTOGRAPHYDiosma, 2020
Territory of Darkness, 2020
Werebodies, 2020
Pool Hall, 2018
Walking In My Shoes (Ondru), 2018
Yumarrala Ngulu (Ondru), 2018
They Are Climbing Mt Asgard, 2015
Discs, 2014
Distant, Relative, 2013
Voiceless Journeys (Ondru), 2012
Allery Exhibitions, 2008

DRAWINGS Dry Yellow, 2020
Dry Red, 2020
Dry Blue, 2018-20


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MURTI, 2018






7th December
Testing-Grounds
1 City Rd, Southbank
One night participatory installation presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria for Mapping Melbourne.

MURTI (‘moor-thee’), is a communal participatory installation about worship and ritual in our contemporary age. A Sanskrit term, ‘murti’ is an embodied icon of the Divine. Reflecting on the ancient Hindu ritual of bathing stone idols in water and milk, MURTI invites people to pour vibrant paint upon a large-scale sculpture that reimagines the most revered and abstracted Hindu icon – the Lingam.

Lingam, meaning sign or mark, is also known as the cosmic egg. It is iconic of the formless deity Shiva, and is typically a phallic symbol made from stone, alluding to the qualities of creation, destruction, and the infinite. Inspired by the symbolism and worship of the Lingam, MURTI exhibits a grand sculptural idol as a site for public interaction, viewing and gathering. Through the re-enactment of these rituals by audience members, and the pouring of paint as a gesture of worship, MURTI questions ideas of sanctity, divinity and connection.

MURTI is an invitation to an experiential interpretation of consecration that gives people an opportunity to reconnect with paint, intention and their body.








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