I am a multidisciplinary Indian visual artist, curator and researcher based in Paris, France.
I am a multidisciplinary Indian visual artist, curator and researcher based in Paris, France. I work across diverse analogue and digital media to create multisensory storytelling experiences, including mixed reality, drawing and painting, photography, poetry film, sculpture, audio art, performance, multilingual writing and visual poetry.
My art practice centers on the South Asian post-colonial historic-cultural landscape, synesthetic multilingualism, and the identity of the female body of colour. I strive to foster intercultural dialogue through shared safe spaces. As a curator, I focus on post-digital realism and media ecology to support decolonial intercultural practices. My work has been shown across Europe and Asia, including at the 59th Venice Biennale, and I am a member of the activist artist group WE Collective.
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MixamoThese are examples of portraits in oil, aquarelle, acrylic, pastel, gouache, pencil that I have created as commissions and personal works over the past five years. https://www.twine.net/signin oilpainting portraitpainting aquarellepainting gouachepainting pastelpainting pencildrawing
Cinepoem, 2024 This cinepoem explores the female queer body of colour, situating it in current politics, drawing upon notions of identity and objectification. The female body becomes the easiest target in times of political strife and war. This artwork is the psychogeographical interpretation of a safe space for such a body. It is a hope to reclaim space, strength and room for vulnerability in these torn times. Photographs by Zoë Yalden. https://www.twine.net/signin film poetryfilm identity
Sculpture, creative writing, performance, video, 2025 The poetry film explores myth-making and the inventive ritualisation of care through the lens of ecofeminism. It questions the sanctity of the “motherland”, a colonized female body. https://www.twine.net/signin film poetryfilm identity
Audioreactive immersive installation, 2025 The Ragamala tradition of cultural synesthesia dating back to the 15th century in the Indian subcontinent essentially brought together music, visuals and poetry. Each raga would be assigned with moods, seasons and hour of the day, and a work of art combining painting with descriptive poetry would be created as a synesthetic response. Raga Yaman is largely associated with the blue hour or hour of twilight, while the mood assigned typically with that of the viraha rasa, the melancholy of separation from the beloved haunting its notes as the world around is enveloped in a mist of blue. This work is situated at the meeting ground of individual, cultural and digital synesthesia in the context of ancient Indian classical music. The audio visualisation software Milkdrop 3.0 is used to create audio reactive abstract visuals that correspond to my personal synesthetic associations with the piece of music Raga Yaman by Ust. Vilayat Khan. The installation is immersive with continuous projection on three walls of a white cube space displaying live audio reactive visuals in a performance format. The audience is welcome to walk through and immerse in the piece, as well as interact with the software to generate visuals that respond to the score of Raga Yaman. https://www.twine.net/signin audiovisualart immersive installation
Virtual reality installation // VR film, creative writing, photography, performance, sculpture 2024-25 Combining virtual reality, creative writing, photography and performance, this immersive installation embodies a “lost” space from the psychogeographical exploration of the India-Bangladesh conflicted border historic landscape, its impact on transgenerational memory and trauma. It offers a multisensory experience of my personal and transgenerational experience with multiple migrations, border conflict and being “the other” in a space. The protagonist of this speculative universe, a boatwoman, acts as my avatar; you are guided by her/my voice. The aesthetic of this world combines greyscale with the colour purple, achieving a diffused dream-like effect, with layers of aquarelle textures and echoes, and surreal elements such as a hand-painted sky and cultural relics in the river sediment. In the VR film, the viewer/participant embody a character in a boat cruising down a fictitious river. The riverine landscape is a reference to the over fifty transboundary rivers shared between the two countries, a metaphor for the fluidity of culture, history and migrant movements across this forced artificial colonial border. This was the path of migration my family took during the India-Pakistan wars. The installation space is engulfed in a giant fishing net at the centre of which is placed a boat that the viewer/participant steps into to wear the headset and experience the VR film. The net carries various “relics” of this imagined universe, symbolising what has been dredged from the bottom of this flowing river of memories. This is combined with purple light and an ambient soundscape to further create an immersive atmosphere. As a performative aspect, I am physically in the space dressed as the boatwoman protagonist figure to welcome and introduce the viewer/participant to this fictionalised universe. The boatwoman is a symbol of Durga, the drowned goddess of strength, another co-cultural metaphor, a representation of the silenced female figure reclaiming space and power. https://www.twine.net/signin virtualreality installation immersive 3Dart sculpture
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10 Years of Creative Flow
Curatorial project: Below the Radar - Retrospective Adrienne Smiley
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