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Ayushi Chaurasia, or yushichau is a creative practitioner. She is from Lucknow, India. Her work is based on both analogue and digital mediums of collaging while she talks about the inherent interconnectedness 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 the future. While her artworks are narrative fiction scapes, she bases her research on history, politics, positive psychology and mental health. In her collages, 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 the pre-modern era.
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.
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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