Studio AiR Green 2026
Studio AiR Green is our 8 week residency for one artist
Jayita Barai
Spring 2026
Jayita Barai is a visual artist from Delhi. She completed her BFA from College of Art in New Delhi (2017), and MFA from the S.N. School of Art and Communication (2019). She has
exhibited at Khirki Studio, Delhi(2018); Emerging Palette at Shrishti Art Gallery, Hyderabad(2019); a group show with ONKAF Gallery(2019) in Hamburg; and the CIMA Award
Show(2022). She also participated in the Lockdown times community art project(2020). She was part of a residency in Nagaland organised by Arts for Change India+TAFMA(2022). She
has worked as an Art mediator with KHOJ - Air expo, a public art intervention project (2022) and exhibited at Bhau Daji Lad Museum(2024) She has also worked as an educator at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath from 2022-2024. She received the Prafulla Dahanukar Award(2024) and Space118 Grant(2025–26).
"My practice revolves around the themes of displacement, ecology and the shifting notions of home that goes beyond the physical structure that encompasses memories, dreams, emotions of the dreamer. My medium of expression is drawing, sculpture and
installations. I use coir rope, discarded clothes, foraged natural materials to build sculptural forms that act like containers of life with knotting, weaving and tying as gestures that metaphorically represent protection, comfort and the togetherness of human and nature.
In my practice material, touch and the making i.e through the act of knotting is interlinked to each other , where one is inseparable from another.This action has material memory, a sequence of movements where each knot measures time, labor and touch."
"Assemblage is one of my ongoing projects that I wish to extend to the Norwegian
landscape. The project is built around materials gathered during my walks in urban
parks and urban forests, where I treat each walk as a foraging expedition rather than an
ordinary stroll. I am excited for AiR Green residency at Søndre Green, as the
surrounding Norwegian landscape presents an opportunity to extend my urban-born
practice into a new ecological scenario. My aim is to create site-responsive
assemblages that will hold the material memory of the Norwegian landscape and
encourage stillness, focus, and tactile exploration."
Jayita Barai
Former
AiR Studio residents
Luis Renteria
Fall 2025
Luis Renteria (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in
cinematography. He lives and works between Barcelona and Guadalajara. He studied Textile Art
at Escola Massana and completed a Master's degree in Artistic Research and Production at the
University of Barcelona. His work combines traditional techniques and references to vernacular
art to explore socially relevant themes through fiction and fantasy.
Deborah Jeromin
Spring 2024
Deborah Jeromin was born 1987 in Flensburg (Germany), lives and works between Leipzig (Germany) and Crete (Greece). She develops a research on mainly historical topics and makes them accessible through different media. She focuses on textile handcraft processes and memories, feminist history and sites of National Socialism. Her documentary “Riven Threads“ was shown on DOK Leipzig (2020) an Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2021). 2020 she published the book „parachutesilk.“
Portrait photo: Katharina Wittmann
Forough Absalan
Fall 2024
Absalan is an artist based in Berlin, originally from Iran, currently staying in Oslo. During the Air Green Artist Residency, Forough plans to focus on her current project titled with every grandma that falls, a mountain dies. This multimedia-textileart-installation is a tribute to the fading archives of ancestral knowledge, cultural practices, and the ecological damage intertwined with their loss
