The John Michael Kohler Arts Centre published a booklet to accompany Ashwini Bhat's Reverberating Self. The cover page is a still from the artist's new film If Not Here, Where? The exhibition is on view until 11 January 2026.
The first early midcareer survey of the artist’s work, Ashwini Bhat: Reverberating Self, contains multimedia sculptures, video, and photography from over a decade of artistic practice. The exhibition illustrates Bhat’s journey since moving to California from southern India—creating a new home and securing a sense of belonging through meditation, art making, and communion with her environment.
All works on view are part of Assembling California, the artist’s ongoing exploration of place and self. The series concentrates on natural phenomena including post-fire forests, climate change, large-scale forces, mapping, and human/nonhuman relationships.
Bhat’s artworks share moments of her journey—of seeking self within her ecologies. She invites viewers to reconsider how the landscape and the self influence and compose each other, reminding them of what is at stake.
