“I create art, sometimes to confront, escape, influence, learn and sometimes to simply converse. I try to create an “image”- whether visual or multisensory - for the intangible ideas of restlessness, anxiety, confusion and fury that simmers within me.
MY WORK
Performances
My art has always had a sense of self participation. I want my body and mind to go through the changes akin to a canvas. My intense urge to be one of the elements of composition, or a ‘composition’ itself, and to have a broader connection with the viewer, inspires me to create ‘performance art’. The medium with its impromptu adaptability and natural acquaintance foster an inquisitive dialogue with the people and surroundings.
Photography
I imbibed camera for the volatile concepts of human existential dilemmas and inherent dichotomous living. I look at people in their everyday context, going through inner and outer changes caused by factors such as prejudice, urbanization, indifference, consumerism. I find each of them figuring out their values, beliefs, interests, and their role in society and life.
Interactive Art
We come across interventions all the time through people and surroundings - with their ideologies, beliefs, influences, and perceptions that keep altering an individual’s rhythm, sometimes to drift along, sometimes to deflect. How should one react to this? How should one maintain a certain consistency, or is it perfectly fine to let it change without losing focus? Because possibly there is no absolute form to things and everyone, it’s always in relation to other. I let my space be shuffled by people, or maybe, I let myself into their world, to reform, rearrange, renew my art in a dimension unknown to me and then just be a spectator.
Installations
I study everyday objects—their ambiguity, their characteristics in relation to people and nature, beyond obvious appearances and connotations. I draw out the similarities, differences, and interconnections in them to create a new, objective approach. At some point, the contrast between living and non-living things, ironically, resonates with the nature of real-life conflicts: sturdy vs fragile, stagnant vs dynamic, apparent vs hidden, temporary vs permanent, adaptive vs rigid.
Paintings
The primary medium of my choice and academic training is Painting and as an abstractionist I have been intrigued by a conversation between the subtle and the more proactive emotions. Exploring the corporeal nature of the colour pigment, it's density/sparsity, opacity/transparency, malleability/thickness or my own definitions of identity and Selfhood has been the meditating experience for me.