Anika Iyer
Anika Iyer is a multidisciplinary artist, exploring themes of ineffability and the limitations of language. Her work asks: how do we give voice to the unnamed? How does the world occur to a child before they have words for their experience? Through experimental film and video installation, Iyer engages with ephemera, using light as her primary medium. Working in analog film, she surrenders to slowness, the process demanding patience and ritual repetition. At this deliberate pace, time becomes her collaborator. She believes connections emerge through deep looking and listening, bringing viewers into her world of introspection and contemplation. To Iyer, presence and attention are prayer; a radical act in our attention-grabbing world. Ironically, her moving images invite the viewer to return to stillness. Her work reveals threads of meaning in the spaces language cannot reach. Anika is a first-generation South Asian settler in Toronto, currently studying Integrated Media at OCAD University.