Overview
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The architectural or aesthetic aspects contain us in daily life. The physical world build by these formal arrangements fascinates me and my work is borrowed from such surroundings.
The recent set of works is a series of collages featuring Balsa wood and Rapidograph pen on Paper. Thin strips of wood are sliced and built into a veil like structure. Layers of balsa are interlaced into the drawing, creating linear yet three dimensional landscapes. These works draw references from urban situations, such as abandoned lived spaces that stand shielded with a tarp, tottering piles of ripped homes that lay on a vacant plot or towering scaffoldings holding on to the structures until they are instructed to reveal.
A veil/ a mask / a screen / a facade – all of it conceals the true print of the landscape as it slowly morphs underneath.
Biography
Niyeti Chadha was born in 1979 in Dehradun, India. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Printmaking from the Chandigarh College of Art and a Master’s degree in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda.
She has received several prestigious awards and residencies, including the Gasworks International Studio Residency, London (supported by the Charles Wallace India Trust); Printmaking Scholarship at the Manhattan Graphics Center, New York; the INLAKS Fine Art Award; and the UGC Junior Research Fellowship.
Her most recent presentation includes participation in the 13th edition of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair (2025), Moscow, Russia, as part of the Special Collectors’ Project curated by eminent Russian art collectors, Ekaterina and Andrey Terebenin.
Chadha’s work has been exhibited widely in both national and international exhibitions, including Planetary Scale, Gallery Filet, London; India Hub, Artissima, Italy; Traversing the Noosphere, Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi; The New Minimalists, Abrons Arts Center, New York; Weaving Shards, Gallery Latitude 28; Drawing Notes, Studio X, Mumbai; and Script for a Landscape — a site-specific installation at the Queens Museum of Art, New York.
Her practice spans drawings, prints, and sculptures, which serve as
recordings of formal structures in the urban environment. Through the
subjective tool of memory, she reclaims the physical and objective world, creating a dialogue between perception, material, and space.
She lives and works in Bangalore.
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