KAMALANETRA HUNG

“THE HIGHEST EDUCATION IS THAT WHICH DOES NOT MERELY GIVE US INFORMATION BUT MAKES OUR LIFE IN HARMONY WITH ALL EXISTENCE.” – Rabindranath Tagore, Personality (1917), Nobel Laureate in Literature (1913).

STATEMENT

Before turning to art, I studied engineering and natural sciences. Unable and limited to articulate my transgender experience, this tension opened a path toward artistic and spiritual search. Through new media, performance, ludic spaces, installation, math geometry, text/speech, songs/mantras, I explore the topic of compassion/ self compassion, and inner joy beyond matter and mind.

These explorations led to the installation Post Cyborg Awakening (2017), Pineapple Laboratories a utopic safe space / memorial where transwomen are not reduced to the material body but recognised in spirit. In the work Pachamama (2021-23) I explore co-creatively the topic environmental compassion and connexion to Mother Earth. Recent works include What is in Me (2024), Call of the Universe dedicated to the Hindu Goddess Radha, and The Jewel Jellyfish Collection (2023-24), Trasnochada exploring self-compassion as bioluminescence.

Kamalanetra, August 2024 (Revised March 2025)