Sarita Dev is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and lecturer. She makes spatial art and installations, frequently containing film and moving images, that explore and play with the way we make sense of the natural world.
Fascinated and inspired by ideas from physics she made monumental works about concepts of space and time in About a story without a tale, The Astronaut's Kitchen and nature of matter in Container handling crane. Constantly questioning how we perceive the world she got more and more interested in brain science, especially visual perception. Travel Kit takes the audience on a mental strip through the landscape, whereas Himalaya’s Head is an installation where visual feedback is distorted by mismatching the images on the audience's retina with their head movements, giving a strange physical sensation.
Graduating in Fine Arts from Academy Minerva, Groningen, she attended the residency program at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. From the Free University of Amsterdam she received her MA in Word and Image studies. Sharing her work, ideas and knowledge, she was affiliated as a lecturer at Leiden University, University of Amsterdam, Saxion University and ArtEZ University of the Arts. She also created the website Neurokids that made brain science accessible for children and adults.
Sarita's works have been shown in galleries, public spaces and at international festivals and conferences including LABoral Gíjon, Spain, Espacio Cultural, Tenerife, Spain; Medi@terra Athens, Greece; Banff Centre Canada; Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA; CEC & CAC, New Delhi, India; State of the Image Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands; Theater Anatomicum Waag Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Siggraph, Los Angeles, USA.