Artist’s Statement

Since my childhood, I have been living and commuting in Delhi. While roaming around, I started to look at different architectural spaces, their patterns, construction complex, structures, and urban environment. These urban geographies somehow started to fascinate me where it became the source of my visual vocabulary for art practice. Through my art practice, I am exploring the question of interaction between me and these architectural spaces and what kind of impact they create psychologically as well as physically. I am somehow trying to simplify the forms of modern architecture and break it into simple geometrical shapes. I am inquiring about the interrelation between the lived spaces and moving bodies through the urban environments. How does an individual perceives the lived space? How does someone achieve peace in this process of commuting in the city's everyday life? Throughout all this process, commuting to use its experiences in my art practice in some way wanted to find peace in a chaotic routine. However, I am trying to turn this commuting routine of everyday life into a source of inspiration or fieldwork instead of taking it as a daily routine. I was a mural student in my Bachelor's. I had worked on mediums like Fresco on a prepared base which helped in developing many layers of drawing as well as painting. Use of material which is related to construction site white cement badarpur, sand lime, marble dust, iron wire and jute used on the surface of MDF wood and engagement with processes increased my understanding of further working with these materials. These materials are also related to architecture and help me to create an atmosphere of city. The use of scale is an essential aspect of some of my artworks. It depicts the masculine approach to work on height besides my attempt to break the general stereotype of working on the scale of a woman, which comes from a very personal experience.