Sudheendradas is a visual artist, sculptor, and educator working across sculpture, in-stallation, and conceptual art. He completed his Master of Visual Arts in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

His academic experience includes appointments at the Department of Fine Arts, Univer-sity of Hyderabad, and the School of Design, JECRC University, Jaipur, where he en-gaged with students across disciplines through studio-based and interdisciplinary learning environments. Alongside academia, he has worked in commercial and applied art, including professional experience in Bahrain. He has conducted workshops and col-laborative projects with institutions including Banasthali Vidyapith and C-MET Hyder-abad, and has served as a jury member at diffrent institutions

Facial casts capturing distinct emotional states are sealed in Ziploc bags like specimens for laboratory analysis. Accompanying scannable QR codes direct viewers to Wikipedia definitions of happiness, sadness, and excitement. By out-sourcing emotional comprehension to machine-readable language, the inter-active installation confronts the superficiality and detachment of human feel-

Much of his work operates in the tension between presence and mediation. A sculpted face, a framed surface, or a minimal arrangement of codes becomes a site where physical experience confronts machine-readable language. When a viewer scans a QR code to access a definition of emotion or family, the work ex-poses how authority is outsourced to digital archives. Meaning becomes

figure made of Tribal Museum Tamil Nadu
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