I grew up in post-liberalisation India that dramatically changed the
landscape of urban cities and neighborhoods. While on one hand,
this world presented a sense of freedom in the ways of being;
particularly for young women, the stratification across class, caste
and religion created tensions that manifested in everyday life of
women in many ways. My creative work has been an attempt to
grapple with these tensions, responding from a personal position to
comment on the larger political context around me.
I create art with the intention to incorporate the everyday
fragments of ordinary life into my work. Using elements of design
and personal narratives incorporated in the mediums of installation,
wall murals and community art projects, I try to initiate
conversations that can facilitate new possibilities of being,
becoming and belonging in a time of repression. My work intersects
at both personal and political junctures; it is, at large, an attempt to
represent lived experience of systemic oppression and collective
healing in/of community.
