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In this particular work "Bird", I have negotiated with images of the journey towards the unknown and obscure destination. The image is put together with the sound of an echoing traditional Indian wedding Vidai songs sung at farewell ceremony to the bride by her family. Daughters are referred as birds in these traditional songs as they migrate to faraway unknown lands. The work also has subtly undertones of pathos brought in by issue around forced marriage and honor killings in South Asian patriarchal communities. My self-referential works are tinted with concerns of identity and memory with undercurrents of anxiety, fear, loss and belonging.

I was born in 1971 in a small northern Indian city called Aligarh .I moved to Delhi in 1990 to go to art school of Delhi University and did my BA & MA. I won international scholarship and lived in Mexico in 2000.Meanwhile, my works were shown in several national and international solo and group exhibitions. In 2007, I came to London to do my MA Art Practice. Since graduating from Goldsmiths, London University in September 2009, my works have been exhibited at London Tate Britain, National Gallery Bangkok, Museum of Contemporary Art : Sofia, Belgrade Art Fair, Espacio Enter: Tenerife Spain, Tenderpixle Gallery: London, Galerie Muller and Plate: Munich, Id Art Fest: International Dynamic Contemporary Art Museum : Macerata Italy, OED Gallery: Cochin India and Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford. As part of ?Time is Love- 6? video screenings my video work traveled to Tehran, New York and Norway. In 2012, my video was short listed for Celeste Prize and Culture Cloud at New Art Exchange Nottingham. I curated and organized six video screenings in India and Spain. I have been writing art exhibition reviews for established art magazines in India.