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The persisting forms of inequality and the post-colonial hierarchy in the post colonial society.
Exploring and inverting the processes that manifest sound, language and performance, a new apparatus is created to produce forms and lines. The resulting (un)coding is a drawing.
A series of bronze sculptural objects are encountering the meaning of permanency. The shadows create realities and dissolve meanings..
Artists’ absence is reclaimed via the placement of remnants of buildings placed at different venues, each piece standing in for a lost presence.
A fresh intervention to understanding the differences in cultures and celebrating the formation of a new language as an outcome of lingual anarchy performed by both artists and audiences.
A deconstructed domestic space of borrowed domestic artifacts, temporarily migrated from hundreds of homes in Colombo...
A return gift maintains an ongoing relationship between giver and receiver, functioning as a constant reminder of shared emotions...
The abandoned, impermanent and unusual belongings are seen as bodies full of un-acknowledged, unseen memories and stories invested in them...
Kenopsia was meant to evoke many kinds of voids in space and different senses of uncanny that come with them...
(un)picking the museum etiquettes, this project culminated in tracing an alternative and participatory tour of the museum...
A performance that engaged the audience in an organic dialogue with using non-language as a tool to arouse curiosity amongst the onlookers...
Transformation of saris into hair braids makes the identity of the particular object dysfunctional...
An invitation for an artist’s presentation was turned into a performance. A radical potential unfolded in the company of students, faculty and visitors.
Deconstructed and drawn onto different parts of the museum, Taj Mahal lost its identity through this process of irregular distribution of its cenotaph...
This performance involved an invitation to act with an offer letter and pre-payment on site...
A fluid line of false teeth and dental polymer creates a monumental hanging visceral sculpture that spans eighty-four feet...divide the geometric Zaha Hadid space into two...
Collected as a series of poems, disappearing bodies of language were compiled and performed into a poetry ...
A site specific interactive project that “lifted” the local roadside flower vendors from their usual surroundings of traditional markets in Chennai to a high end shopping mall....
A fantasy film in a real setting. Attempting communication outside the narrow alleys of comprehension and common language. A non-scripted, interactive and experience based initiative in a govt orphanage home in Kerala.
‘Non-text’ was created through hair patterns on gallery walls giving out signs of non-language, opposing the rules of grammar, diction, vocabulary and syntax...
A voice that is left unrecognized and suppressed by the influence of institutional hierarchy.
A noise canceling head phone as an object and a hand-written poem were altered into a destination of silence...
Same River Twice comprised of a closed room occupied by engraved re-workings of Bhupen Khakhar’s tender drawings as casted shadows...
It tried to trace the contradictory behaviors that mind exhibits as it plays between life and death...
The ‘invisible’ ‘absent’ ephemeral body became the reference point as it resurfaced and vanished!
Different ironic and erotic imagery tease the viewer’s gaze, while attempting to resist the contemporary market demands.
The notions of transformation, metamorphoses and resurrection are incorporated in a challenging and thought-provoking way.
Peeling off layers of paints and several years of history from much-used gallery walls constituted a week-long performance...
Teeth: the biting incarcerations, of warped sexuality, and bleeding violence!
The images traversed through a complex psychic journey of the human mind and childhood memories...
A narrative of “vulnerable masculinities” through a feminine perspective beyond the binaries of male/female, heterosexual/homosexual equation.
The idea of home becomes the site where no-thing is actualized, (un)manifested through an assuming re-arrangement of space, things and perceptions...
Re-touched and re-created, posters were further pasted back on to the walls of the same village in Bangladesh...
A personal representation and cultural expression externalized through drawings, aimed to transform public attitudes, spur and increase aesthetic interchange...
It is an on-going web based interactive project that offers people a free art work in exchange for a letter with love, as a form of counter capitalism, challenging and critiquing the conventions of art world exchange...
I presented myself as an intruder in the curator’s domain, challenging the curator’s invitation and using freedom in his space to alter his signature style publications...
It fostered an unsaid story of Icarus, serving as a metaphor for an individual’s desire...
The show metaphorically questioned our ability to become extinct through each moment we pass, one into the other, thus fading in memory and in time...
The show criticizes the demand of “Indianness” from the artworks of Indian artists by the Contemporary Art world...
Shot on a beautiful morning following a storm in Bahia, Brazil, Icarus brings out tragedy in two-ways...
An attempt to deny or confuse an object’s political, social, dictionary bound defined identity...
An attempt to deconstruct the institutional space and question/redefine the imposed etiquette on hospitality...
On the extended canvas of nature, a drawing of overwhelming emotions and feelings get embedded with the sand grains...
Drawing Room questioned the matters of private and public domesticizing erotica to interrogate the moral codes around domesticity...
The public walked over the covered entrance steps to enter the temple, creating a statement against separated religious systems...
The black veil worn by Muslem women of the local community of Lamu, acts both as a protective measure against unwanted male viewing and a tactile containment for women...
The violence is symbolically mediated but it also touches the real, which cannot be symbolized...
Exploring gender politics, I questioned the incessant need to create categories and classify people based on the colour of their skin...
A site specific installation on a subjective response about a rape victim, created with light, sound and bed...
Found objects or unbelongings are transformed to devise a map of a different society...
A map is many things- space, infinite time, history, navigator, navigated...
It depicts feminine identity through hair and the fear of losing identity associated with loss of hair...
