Dwelling in Liminality, Mixed Media Installation, 2025
Dwelling in Liminality, Mixed Media Installation, 2025
Brown Palms, Yellow Balms
Curated by O.M. France Viana
SomArts, San Francisco, CA
The work centers around the intersectionality of gender, caste, class, and environmental justice and speaks about our bodies, environment, and cultural history to reclaim spaces to redo systems that destroy communities. In my work, I have used a mosquito net to create a cocoon-like space, imagining renewal and growth. The weaving of the net generates meanings of unity and harmony for all living beings, and it also helps create a space for dreams and prayers.
My work offers imaginary ways to alter prescriptive texts and create liberatory spaces, new ways of knowing, connecting, and understanding each other. I derive my strength from many philosophers and activists who have generated the power to speak against oppression and enabled us to heal and bridge the deeper divides that separate us.
The work explores the regenerative facet of liminal spaces, which work to heal and nourish one’s personal and collective self. As a first-generation immigrant woman of color, liminal spaces allow me to connect deeply with myself by discussing my fears and anguish of living in a country where I am often considered a perpetual foreigner. This in-between state can provide a contemplative space for reconnecting and seeking meaning in ambiguity and uncertainty and exploring and accepting the fluidity of life. The work creates a metaphoric journey of my gendered self, offering the potential for transformation by consciously holding space to engage in a constant conversation without predicting outcomes!
Brown Palms, Yellow Balms
Curated by O.M. France Viana
SomArts, San Francisco, CA
The work centers around the intersectionality of gender, caste, class, and environmental justice and speaks about our bodies, environment, and cultural history to reclaim spaces to redo systems that destroy communities. In my work, I have used a mosquito net to create a cocoon-like space, imagining renewal and growth. The weaving of the net generates meanings of unity and harmony for all living beings, and it also helps create a space for dreams and prayers.
My work offers imaginary ways to alter prescriptive texts and create liberatory spaces, new ways of knowing, connecting, and understanding each other. I derive my strength from many philosophers and activists who have generated the power to speak against oppression and enabled us to heal and bridge the deeper divides that separate us.
The work explores the regenerative facet of liminal spaces, which work to heal and nourish one’s personal and collective self. As a first-generation immigrant woman of color, liminal spaces allow me to connect deeply with myself by discussing my fears and anguish of living in a country where I am often considered a perpetual foreigner. This in-between state can provide a contemplative space for reconnecting and seeking meaning in ambiguity and uncertainty and exploring and accepting the fluidity of life. The work creates a metaphoric journey of my gendered self, offering the potential for transformation by consciously holding space to engage in a constant conversation without predicting outcomes!
Lakdi ki Kaathi (Frame of Wood), Mixed Media Installation, 2022
Lakdi Ki Kaathi (Frame of Wood)
84(h) x 50; (w) x 60 (d) inches
2022
Mixed Media Installation
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA and McColl Art Center, Charlotte, NC
Synthetic hair, recycled fabric from used saris, salwar kameez, and rice sacks.
'Lakdi Ki Kaathi' approaches the complexities of relationships and the burden of
gendered expectations carried by children from the day they are born. It is partly
autobiographical, reflecting many experiences tied to the domestic sphere and
patriarchal structure. It opens a dialogue on specific South Asian social and cultural
practices - their meanings and impact on a child's emotional well-being and growth.
84(h) x 50; (w) x 60 (d) inches
2022
Mixed Media Installation
SOMArts, San Francisco, CA and McColl Art Center, Charlotte, NC
Synthetic hair, recycled fabric from used saris, salwar kameez, and rice sacks.
'Lakdi Ki Kaathi' approaches the complexities of relationships and the burden of
gendered expectations carried by children from the day they are born. It is partly
autobiographical, reflecting many experiences tied to the domestic sphere and
patriarchal structure. It opens a dialogue on specific South Asian social and cultural
practices - their meanings and impact on a child's emotional well-being and growth.
RaktBeej (Blood Seeds), Mixed Media Installation, 2021
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RaktBeej (Bloodseeds)
81" X 120" X 10"
2021
Mixed Media Installation
Found objects, soft sculptures, papier-mâché, natural wood, clay, synthetic hair,
recycled fabric from used saris, salwar kameez, and rice sacks.
The work emerged from my investigation and understanding of the global ecological
crisis, which concerns patriarchal structures, corporate greed, and the destruction of
bio- and cultural diversity. It is a contrapuntal reading of the Indian mythology of
“Raktbeej,” the mythological story of the goddesses Ambika and Kali, who fought the
demon Raktbeej, who had a boon that allowed him to duplicate whenever a drop of
blood fell onto the ground. It acknowledges the contribution of womxn farmers and how
they are exercising their agency to activate spaces and create a discourse on the
current global ecological crisis.
Beej (Seeds) You Reap what you Sow, Mixed Media Installation 2019
Beej (Seeds)
You Reap what you Sow
Mixed Media Installation 2019, 4'x6" x 5' x 12'
Recycled Salwar Kameez, Dupatta, Skirt.
Barbed wire, Rice Grain, Seeds
Beej (Seeds) You Reap what you Sow
Mixed Media Installation 2019, 4'x6" x 5' x 12' Recycled Salwar Kameez, Dupatta, Skirt. Barbed wire, Rice Grain, Seeds
Mixed Media Installation 2019, 4'x6" x 5' x 12' Recycled Salwar Kameez, Dupatta, Skirt. Barbed wire, Rice Grain, Seeds
Meghdoot (Cloud Messenger)
Mixed Media Installation
Drawings and collage on Faux leather, and strings, 2018
Meghdoot, 2016-2017, Mixed Media Installation
Meghdoot, 2016-2017, Mixed Media Installation
