Ayumi Paul (b. 1980, Germany; based in Athens and Kyoto) is a visual artist and musician whose practice derives from listening processes and observational methodologies. Choosing sound as the primary medium with which to engage with the world, her work prompts ways of belonging within a broader temporal continuum and reveals connections often obscured by dominant narratives. Her artistic language includes paper, textiles and sculptural installations, along with sound pieces, performances and meditations, and it aims to contribute towards the creation of new vocabularies that synthesise scientific research and sensory perception. Paul’s work has been exhibited at the Gropius Bau, Berlin; Villa Massimo, Rome; the National Gallery Singapore; Kunsthalle Osnabrück; SFMOMA, San Francisco; the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; and the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, amongst others. Her major research endeavour, The Singing Project (2001–ongoing), is a collective practice and singing sculpture that transforms public and institutional spaces into fluid, communal spaces of song.
Rajyashri Goody was born in 1990 in Pune, India, and she lives and works between the Netherlands and her native country. The artist obtained a BA in Sociology from Fergusson College in Pune (2011) and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom (2013). She also completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2023). Her research interests include food and water politics, religion, literacy and literature, mobility and space-making in the context of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance in India. Her mediums are primarily paper pulp, clay, text, photography and printmaking. Goody’s work has been presented at the Busan Biennale (2024); the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (2024); Asia Now, Paris (2023); the Jogja Fotografis Festival, Yogyakarta (2023); Rencontres de Bamako (2023); Galleryske, New Delhi (2022); BredaPhoto (2022); SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2022); and Goethe-Institut, Mumbai (2021).