ayushi chaurasia

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Ayushi Chaurasia who also goes by her alias yushichau is a visual artist and an archivist. She was born in Lucknow in India. Her art practice is based on both analogue and digital mediums of collaging while she talks about the inherent inter-connectedness of things. Her work encapsulates the various discourses of well-being, flora, fauna, built spaces, objects and experiences. She collages the visuals of the past and present into elements of fantasy and future. While her artworks present themselves as narrative fiction scapes, she bases her research on history, politics, positive psychology and mental health. In her practise, one can trace a feminine presence that diffuses from her feminist lens while looking at her own community, family and world at large.

She montages excerpts from her paintings, photographs, pressed flora and the bounty of waste materials to piece together a work of art. Her story-telling style takes from the synoptic and mono-scenic narrative techniques first used by the Buddhist nuns and monks in several stupas and temples in India and later by the miniature artists of pre-modern era.

Her works have been exhibited at Opposites Attract by Artiste Culture and NRTYA showcase.

Ayushi also works with animation and video as a medium. She montages the sublime decay of built environment (from various periods that divide history) with the ever present foliage and flora. Her own magical imaginations give her collages an other worldly character.

As an archivist at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (India's largest modern and contemporary art museum), she engages with their dynamic art collection that continues to further inform her own practice.

She is the host of the podcast Indian Art History by Mash Podcast. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast.

*The description of each artwork is different not just in its content but also in its form, tense and construction. It provides an evidence of a variety of writing techniques the artist felt necessary for different kinds of works and themes, exploring prose and poetry.

For collaboration and commission contact ayushi.chaurasia25@gmail.com.

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Homegrown.co.in - Stitching Together Meaningful Art: Ayushi Chaurasia Creates Magical Collage Art

Platform Magazine - Ayushi Chaurasia

Alipore Post - Digital collages by Ayushi Chaurasia

Published articles

Balconies in Paintings: The Art of Limited Escape