Our Story
Santr is a London-based art house and curatorial practice focused on digital and emerging media. It was founded as a space for experimentation, inquiry, and collective authorship where technology is approached not only as a tool, but as a material, a collaborator, and a condition shaping contemporary life.
Emerging from shared practices in computational art, immersive installation, and interdisciplinary research, Santr brings together artists working across physical and digital realms. The platform supports work that engages technology, materiality, identity, and human–world relationships through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and artist-led experimentation, both online and in person.
At its core, Santr is shaped by practices that move fluidly between systems and sensation. Drawing from computational media, AI systems, interactive installations, digital fabrication, moving image, and abstraction, the works developed and presented within Santr explore themes of perception, authorship, ethics, decay, loss, and the instability of identity in technologically mediated environments.
Santr is informed by an interest in more-than-human agency and relational modes of thinking where meaning emerges through interaction rather than representation. It values process as much as outcome, intuition as much as structure, and atmosphere as much as object. Technology, within this context, becomes a site of tension: capable of connection and control, intimacy and distance, clarity and misreading.
Rather than operating solely as a gallery, Santr functions as a platform and framework for evolving practices. It creates space for artists to test ideas, build poetic systems, and develop works that respond to emerging technologies, social environments, and collective experience.
Santr is an art house for a time in flux holding space for contradiction, vulnerability, and experimentation, while asking what it means to create, to witness, and to remain human as our realities continue to shift.
Team
Kría (Kriya Gandhi)
Co-founder, Artist and Curator
Kría is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the evolving relationship between humans and technology. She graduated in MFA Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London working across installation, video, digital media, and abstract painting, she uses emotion and experimentation as her guiding methods not to represent the world, but to ask how we relate to it as it changes.
Her work often moves between the physical and the digital, blurring where one begins and the other dissolves. She resists the boundaries of medium, allowing each idea to shape its own material language. Whether building immersive spaces or translating internal states into visual form, her practice is rooted in a desire to question authorship, perception, and the fluidity of identity.
Kría approaches AI not just as a system, but as a presence sometimes a collaborator, sometimes a shadow reflecting how we learn, project, and misread. She creates poetic systems that hold space for contradiction, intuition, and vulnerability. Her work is an ongoing exploration of what it means to create, to be witnessed, and to remain human in increasingly mediated environments.
Xintong Li
Co-founder, Artist and Curator
Xintong (b. 1997) is a London-based digital artist. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London with an MFA in Computational Arts and works with computational media, interactive installation art, digital fabrication and AI systems to explore technology, ethics, and more-than-human agency. Her practice combines immersive interaction with thematic concerns of decay, loss, and identity.
Xintong continues to develop works that respond to emerging technologies, social environments, and collective experience, and explores how computational methods can challenge the current state of quo by enacting fluid, relational subjectivities and alternative ethics.