Amith M Nayak

B.

1999

With Quiet Art Movement since

December 2025

"

The weight of moral living

"

I work with what systems leave behind: found objects, used mechanics, wood, whatever carries the residue of how we've organised ourselves. These materials aren't chosen for nostalgia or aesthetics they're evidence. My practice uses kinetic sculpture, video, performance, and installation to examine human systems not what they claim to be, but what they actually do. The gap between intention and outcome. How we build structures meant to organise life and end up engineering our own anxiety, isolation, and collapse. I'm trained in sculpture and work across video, performance, and installation. I'm influenced by thinkers like D.V. Gundappa and Kafka both interested in the absurdity of human organisation, the weight of moral living, and the systems that crush individual clarity. One question returns: "Humans invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever build a mousetrap." We're capable of extraordinary intelligence and use it for self-destruction. My work sits in that contradiction. I source materials locally objects that already know something about hierarchy, labor, mechanical failure. I don't transform them into metaphors; I let them speak what they already are. The work moves through stages: pause, tension, discomfort, then curiosity. I want you to stop, register the wrongness of what you're seeing, and start asking why. Not because I'm manipulating your emotions, but because the systems I'm showing you are already broken. I'm just making that visible. I don't offer solutions. The work remains evidence of what we've built and what it's done to us.

Artist Statement

I work with what systems leave behind: found objects, used mechanics, wood, whatever carries the residue of how we've organised ourselves. These materials aren't chosen for nostalgia or aesthetics they're evidence. My practice uses kinetic sculpture, video, performance, and installation to examine human systems not what they claim to be, but what they actually do. The gap between intention and outcome. How we build structures meant to organise life and end up engineering our own anxiety, isolation, and collapse. I'm trained in sculpture and work across video, performance, and installation. I'm influenced by thinkers like D.V. Gundappa and Kafka both interested in the absurdity of human organisation, the weight of moral living, and the systems that crush individual clarity. One question returns: "Humans invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever build a mousetrap." We're capable of extraordinary intelligence and use it for self-destruction. My work sits in that contradiction. I source materials locally objects that already know something about hierarchy, labor, mechanical failure. I don't transform them into metaphors; I let them speak what they already are. The work moves through stages: pause, tension, discomfort, then curiosity. I want you to stop, register the wrongness of what you're seeing, and start asking why. Not because I'm manipulating your emotions, but because the systems I'm showing you are already broken. I'm just making that visible. I don't offer solutions. The work remains evidence of what we've built and what it's done to us.

artworks

A space for art, reflection,
and quiet creation.

write to us at movement@quietart.com

A space for art, reflection,
and quiet creation.

write to us at movement@quietart.com

A space for art, reflection,
and quiet creation.

write to us at movement@quietart.com