Multi-layered aspects of people and places form the foundation of my practice that extends beyond the studio. My focus has been to articulate unspoken stories and to conjure meaning from psychological and physical disruptions caused by war and conflict. Through a process of archival and ethnographical research, engagement with military and civilian personnel, I investigate issues surrounding conflict, war (and war museums), conscription, commemoration, heroism, emotion, fear, healing, the body and gender. A key focus of my practice brings together research from personal conversations and institutional knowledge, to reveal how the history of war and conflict affects and relates to everyday life. The Siachen Glacier Conflict (2007 – Ongoing) between India and Pakistan, and India and the World Wars (2011 – Ongoing) are at the core of my practice, amongst other projects. In 2023, the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper published my first monograph which is an overview of my works from 2006 to 2023.

The narratives of war are not linear, they form intricate trajectories. Over the last decade, I have tried to deconstruct these crucial and complex layers, by approaching them from various positions. This requires an exhaustive process of investigation, questioning, collaboration and interpretation, that generates critical and ambiguous outcomes, to question and confront established histories and power structures. Like an excavator, I move back and forth in time, retrieving traces of the past and documenting the present across various geographies. My artworks probe beyond the surface to complicate, contradict and rethink oral histories, facts, memory and its loss. I develop varied interpretations through the careful observations of found objects, languages, translations, random thoughts, imagined stories and strategically archived narratives. My interdisciplinary projects use diverse mediums such as sculpture, photograph, print, collage, installation, performance and audio/video.
– Updated Mar 2024