MY WORK IS INFORMED by memory and cultural myths recast in a contemporary context.
I am an artist from India living in New York. The tension in my work conflates the co-existence of opposing forces
fundamental in Indian culture with a modern approach. The Hindu trinity-represented literally as the three gods
Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva and metaphysically as the three principles of creation-maintenance-destruction-is core to the
cosmology of Hinduism. This tension provides a balance between my formal ceramic practice and conceptual fragmented
narratives explored through cross-disciplinary installation.
Aesthetically I am investigating the heterogeneous aspect of beauty and the grotesque. Ideas of decay, metamorphosis,
entropy and vanitas are central to my work. My installation Untitled 2005, incorporating mixed media elements of
clay, wire and water is a primordial yet futuristic work. The act of incubating-ideas, embryos or entire worlds-suggests
a decaying existence headed towards a radical transformation, where the seeds of the future have been sown. In
my installation Vanitas, the reflection of wrapped decomposing fruits hung over ceramic bowls filled with what
reminds of the blood or essence of the fruits explores the nostalgia of something diminishing. And in my installation
His Master's Voice, themes of metamorphosis and marginalization inherent in the consequences of religious fundamentalism
are implied through life-sized hybrid ceramic figures focused towards a deified center.
Formally my work, which is primal yet modernistic in nature, draws from my history, fragmenting and conflating
traditions into new worlds that allow the viewer a visceral experience within a present context.
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