rex wallia

Rex Wallia is an interdisciplinary artist from Mumbai, India. Currently a BFA candidate at Caliornia College of the Arts, he most commonly works in the medium of metal, textile, and the written word. He is focused on maintaining the tradition of ancestral craft, using his artistic practice as a way to utilise ancient techniques such as handloom weaving, lost-wax casting, chasing, fabricating, welding, and more as an act of remembrance. Whether he is creating large scale weavings, abstract sculptures, or small-scale jewelry, Rex aims to reimagine the possibilities of craft and to honor the knowledge carried through material practices. He focuses on the body as a vessel by which craft can be created and shared. He sees craft as a way of forming, honoring, remembering, and giving back to community: as the anti-machine. His work mainly deals with issues of complex emotionality seated in immigration, interpersonal relationships, and loss.