//BIO//
Ayushi Chaurasia, or yushichau, is a creative practitioner whose work begins with flânerie, the act of wandering. These aimless strolls situate her practice in visual cultures and gradually shaped her into an archivist, visual artist, and educator. Born and raised in Lucknow, she has lived across cities that have deeply informed her understanding of nature, architecture and how societies inhabit, abandon, or transform their built environments. Through a growing archive of abandoned homes across Indian cities, she reimagines forgotten architecture as spaces of memory, decay, and speculative renewal.
Yushi dresses every platter with a generous helping of 'playful misplacement of meaning'. Her visual practice spans collage, painting, drawing, animation, and fiction writing. She pieces together elements from the past and present into fantastical, often absurd narratives. Her work frequently features architectural motifs in several reimaginations. For example, an ancient Indo-Persian dome merges with the Baháʼí Lotus Temple to form a spaceship, quietly propelled by an unmistakable feminine presence. Working with pressed flora, waste materials, photographs, and fragments of her own paintings, she constructs worlds that defy Earthly physics. Her visual narratives are deeply inspired by synoptic and monoscenic storytelling traditions found in Buddhist reliefs and miniature paintings, folding ancient visual logic into a montage of fantasy and the future. By extracting objects from their given contexts, she stages improbable encounters that blur the lines between the familiar and the fantastical.
She is the host of the podcast Indian Art History by Mash Podcast. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast.
For collaboration and commission contact ayushi.chaurasia25@gmail.com.
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