ARTIST STATEMENT

My art practice has been evolving into an exploration of issues of gender and the human condition, drawing a connection between the society and its effect on our minds.I use emotional and sensuous connotations related to my own experiences. 

I question while expressing the unending repetitive feminine tasks of adornment, of providing love and warmth, of repeatedly repairing objects and relations, of innocent acts of silent violence towards one’s own self and others, while confirming to the culturally defined roles.My works deal with feelings of emptiness that we live with, out of our lives of blatant repetition. 

I paint Images of jumbled, entangled threads on canvas.The ‘thread’ sometimes symbolizes the social fiber and at other times, draws reference to the blood vessels or the umbilical chord.The threads, throbbing with life create intricate, swirling patterns, which are both shocking and compelling. They twist and turn infinitely into a cycle of decay and repair. 

The thread consumes or cuts into the body or the very instrument, which appears to cut them making the instrument worthless.

The tool loses its function and purpose.

I make huge fiberglass sculptures of these ‘useless’ tools or instruments dripping with threads transforming into absurd symbols of gentle pathos and humor. I am dealing with the idea of futility, uselessness and loss of purpose in these works.

 

I photograph my hands and feet as they are the ‘visibly functional’ parts of our body, the human tools and use them in my Images performing acts.The body appears in my work too but mostly as a garment, I work between the presence and the absence of it along with drawing a reference to sewing the skin or the body with the thread as if repairing the tear, the wound, the incision.

 I often employ the image of sewing, knitting using the related tools in my work as it has connotations with warmth, home, protection and childhood also due to the cultural preconceptions surrounding it.My work subverts these preconceptions and the notion of the image as being passive and benign.The works further enlarge the idea of repair and the unending repetitive feminine tasks.

I exploit the idea of repetition by working in multiple images and repeating elements. 

The work is developing specifically in to highlighting the repetitive tasks of repair, adoration, adornment, mothering and the emptiness that comes with it.The helpless inability to lead to change and the silent inherent violence are my areas of challenge and inquiry.

 

BIOGRAPHY

I am an Indian artist, living and working in New delhi (india).
I have completed my education in art from College of Art New Delhi (Bachelor of Fine Art) In 1996 and MA (certificate) painting from Wimbledon school of Art (London)in 2004.
My MA course was supported by Charles Wallace India Trust (British council) as I was a scholarship awardee.
I was invited for an artist's workshop in Mauritius called 'Partage' in 2004 partly supported by Triangle arts trust.
I was invited by Gallery Rohtas II (lahore, pakistan) to present a solo exhibition in 2006.
I have had 3 solo exhibitions in India since 2007, in Mumbai and the last 2 exhibitions in New Delhi named Close knit (2010) and Enmeshed (2013) with Gallery StudioArt new delhi.
Gallery studio art presented a solo booth of my work at the India art Fair 2013

My works have been part of many group shows in India, Singapore, Dubai and Belgium.
My works have been developing from tiny delicate paintings and photography to huge sculptural installations and video