rupture: repattern: repair
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rupture: repattern: repair
My work fuses the mythic and grotesque. I engage with practices of rupture, repatterning and repair to address my concern for voice, power, and violence. Drawing on ancestral transmissions and a synthesis of my Indian Assamese and Anglo-European heritage, I resignify and empower the wounded and monstrous feminine through works framed by the mythologies of Medusa in relationship to Lilith, Shakti and Kali.
Resisting western tendencies to deny violence and erase scars, my work witnesses the wounded psyche and soma through visible ruptures and tactile fragmentations. Embedded within processes, objects, and materials, are gestures of repair of personal and collective wounds, opening ruptures of transformational potential and plasticity. In response to systemic male violence against women, I see repair as a vital practice of cultural resistance, ongoingness and future-making.
Presenting a multisensorial and tentacular material hybridity including the visual, aural, haptic, and kinaesthetic via video projections, sound and sculptural ceramics, my installation poses ruptures to the status quo and preestablished order of patriarchal paradigms. I draw on decolonising methodologies of witnessing, truth-telling, mourning, including a revitalisation and resignification of the empowered feminine, integration of ancestral and cultural inheritances, a reclamation of embodiment, space and presence, and practices of care and repair.