The multilayered relationships between people and places form the foundation of my practice, which extends beyond the studio. My work focuses on articulating unspoken stories and uncovering meaning from the psychological and physical disruptions caused by war and conflict. Through archival and ethnographic research, alongside engagement with military and civilian personnel, I explore issues surrounding conflict, war, imperial systems, conscription, commemoration, war museums, heroism, the body, emotion, fear, resilience, healing, and gender. A central aspect of my practice involves bridging personal conversations with institutional knowledge to reveal how the history of war and conflict influences and connects to everyday life. Evolving projects are at the core of my work, including Siachen Glacier Conflict (2007–Ongoing), which addresses border tensions between India and Pakistan, and India and the World Wars (2011–Ongoing), which explores Indian soldiers’ experiences in the World Wars, among others. In 2023, the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Belgium, published my first eponymous monograph, offering an overview of my works from 2006 to 2023.

The narratives of war are not linear; they form intricate trajectories. Over the past decade, I have sought to deconstruct these crucial and complex layers by approaching them from various perspectives. This process involves exhaustive investigation, questioning, collaboration, and interpretation, leading to critical and often ambiguous outcomes that challenge and confront established histories and power structures. Like an excavator, I move back and forth in time, unearthing traces of the past while documenting the present across diverse geographies. My artworks delve beneath the surface to complicate, contradict, and rethink oral histories, facts, memory, and its loss. I develop varied interpretations through the careful observation of found objects, languages, translations, random thoughts, imagined stories, and strategically archived narratives. My interdisciplinary projects employ a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, photography, printmaking, collage, installation, performance, and audio/video. – Updated Feb 2025