Ranjani Shettar creates large-scale, abstract sculpture by combining manmade and natural materials such as wood, beeswax, cloth, thread, rubber, PVC pipe, wire, steel, and beads. Her works, which appear to be as impulsive and random as they are patterned and logical, are frequently arranged as sculptural installations that interact with and articulate the space around them.  Evoking sweeping, curving, drooping, and growing organic life forms, but leaving the machined elements exposed, Shettar's installations investigate the intersections between the natural world and the evolution of humankind.  

Made with unassuming materials and intensive handwork, Shettar's sculptural installations broaden the scope of our visual field, to include, for example, an image of an invisible atmosphere.  Recycling and reworking existing forms, she also underscores the adaptability of materials and their potential for numerous identities throughout one life cycle.  Ultimately, however, it is by stripping objects and materials from their predictable contexts and adding elements of humor, philosophy, symbolism, and spirituality, that Shettar elucidates the extraordinary essence of everyday forms.