FRAGMENT/ED, 2024-2025

A curation featuring three distinctive ceramic formats: body form, plate, and tile.

In my ceramic practice, I confront the fragmentation of the surveyed and scrutinised female figure in patriarchal societies. Constantly subjected to unsolicited comments about my appearance, these works seek to challenge societal norms by subverting the gaze through my pieces, using image, colour, and the materiality of clay.

By collaging printmaking and ceramics to blur the female form, my pieces reflect the illusory nature of gendered female tropes perpetuated in historical narratives, popular culture, and media. Ceramics and printmaking informs an inquiry into post-colonial aesthetics between India and the West. Through a collage methodology, I combine techniques such as monoprinting and analogue transfers to pervade the ceramic surface with a distinct aesthetic quality. The tactile nature of the glazed surface alludes to the female body image ‘pulling away,’ blurring the boundaries of identity and drawing from the tacit knowledge inherent within the material itself.