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Parvathi Nayar

Artist & Writer Parvathi Nayar Studios

Global Visual Arts Community
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A visual artist, writer and poet, Parvathi is known for her multidisciplinary art, centered on complex drawing practices, video, installations and photography. Her art engages with environment and philosophies of inhabiting them. Her artworks have been showcased at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014-15); A Story of Flight, (Jaya He Museum, T2 Mumbai airport) among many. A Tedx speaker, she regularly presents her work globally at webinars.

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Multidisciplinary art

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Master of Arts

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    Sortlist -Annual Creative Writing Awards (Fiction) - By The Bombay Review
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    Longlist- Annual Creative Writing Awards (Fiction) - By The Bombay Review
    2021
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    UOB Painting of the Year Competition, The Esplanade, Singapore
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    Bi-Annual Cecile Collins Drawing Award
    2004

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CORE / COLUMN

card Core/Column is based on the human spine, which is the centre where all body-related stimuli are processed and understood, the place from which the call to act and respond is sent. There is a sense of familiarity and rupture, as the body is perceived through deep levels of magnification More Info

RADIANT SYMMETRIES

card Radiant Symmetries relates to the humanistic and the technological, to the dizzying power of speed and the spirit that drives it. More Info

TRACES OF PRESENCE, LOCATION AND LOCALITY

card Handdrawn graphite on wooden panels, centred thematically around notions of scale, subjectivity and levels of perception More Info

LISTENING TO LIGHT

card Listening to Light plays with perceptions of how human beings receive and transmit thoughts, ideas, emotions. Growth and transformation are human experiences that are linked with opening our brain so that it may ‘hear’ new possibilities that result in new experiences. More Info

A STORY OF FLIGHT

card A Story of Flight is site specific. The concept derives from the theme of India-Global within the T2 terminus – ie, of India connecting with the world, through the prism of Mumbai. The 3-d work – best described as “drawn sculpture” – has been created with hand-drawn graphite imagery on (31) shaped wooden panels. More Info

By the mouth of the river

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By the mouth of the river

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By the mouth of the river

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A River Ran Through it

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A River Ran Through it

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Black-and-white graphite drawings

Her black-and-white graphite drawings are multifaceted works that look at the internal/intimate spaces within our bodies, and the external/public spaces in which we live, often through the prism of science and technology. More Info
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Drawn sculpture

three-dimensional sculptural forms that are covered with drawings as in the seminal 20-foot high drawing A Story of Flight More Info

Interviews

Artist Interview: Parvathi Nayar | Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014

1 Million Pencil Dots, 1 Voyage and The Fibonacci Sequence | Art Explained |NOCTURNES Parvathi Nayar

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Rasa - Nine Links

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Wave

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Nocturnes

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The Fluidity of Horizons

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Flowers in Ritual - Research - Art - Design

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Chennai’s complicated relationship with its dying rivers, as chronicled by artists

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Chennai artist Parvathi Nayar finds inspiration in the streets of Parry’s Corner

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Parvathi Nayar’s exhibition has a message for the environment

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PARVATHI NAYAR

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Got blue trash? This artist wants it

Featured Videos

Remaking Our World through Art | Parvathi Nayar | TEDxChennai

The Art of Rebellious Discipline | Parvathi Nayar | TEDxBocconiUMumbai

Parvathi Nayar Qna | Visual Arts Committee Launch Event

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Inner Alignment

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A Play of Shadows

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"Cloak and Dagger - India's Fictional Times"

Part of the contemporary art exhibition at Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia curated by Shaheen Merali.

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Voices -Artist & Writers in Conversations

As a founder member of The Hashtag#Collective, Parvathi is  pleased to with Ravi Cavale/Serendip Art to present ‘Voices’ – a very special initiative where we are curating conversations between artists and arts-writers. It is important for the voice of the artist to be heard clear and strong, and never more so than during the Pandemic.…

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The Ambiguity of Landscapes

Solo exhibition featuring drawings, photographs, artist book, animation and videos curated by Annapurna Garimella, Jackfruit Research and Design, 2014, at Gallery Veda Chennai “The Ambiguity of Landscapes indicates the possibility of interpreting visual expressions in multiple ways. It showcases Nayar’s obsessive use of hyper-real images of the human body’s interior and its environment to achieve…

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Only So Many Times

Only So Many Times, installed at the show Mapping a World of Curiosities, curated by Ashna Singh, Delhi, 2015 Extract from the text by Kanika Anand for the group show titled “Mapping a world of curiosities”, at Studio Art, New Delhi Curiosity- A desire to know, an interest leading to inquiry, the quality of fastidiousness,…

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"Cloak and Dagger - India's Fictional Times"

Part of the contemporary art exhibition at Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia curated by Shaheen Merali.

Voices -Artist & Writers in Conversations

As a founder member of The Hashtag#Collective, Parvathi is  pleased to with Ravi Cavale/Serendip Art to present ‘Voices’ – a very special initiative where we are curating conversations between artists and arts-writers.
It is important for the voice of the artist to be heard clear and strong, and never more so than during the Pandemic.
Equally, arts writers have an enormous role to play in establishing the larger contexts and milieus where the artistic voice can be engaged with.
Artist and arts writer together, we believe, will synergistically create important dialogues for and about our times.

The Ambiguity of Landscapes
Solo exhibition featuring drawings, photographs, artist book, animation and videos curated by Annapurna Garimella, Jackfruit Research and Design, 2014, at Gallery Veda Chennai

“The Ambiguity of Landscapes indicates the possibility of interpreting visual expressions in multiple ways. It showcases Nayar’s obsessive use of hyper-real images of the human body’s interior and its environment to achieve a kind of synecdocichal abstraction by making enlarged images of microscopic elements to represent the whole. In the process, she frees herself from direct contact and replication of reality. Nayar does not want her art to be seen as asserting facts; again and again, she dodges the attempt to finalize readings of her work, deferring the closure of interpretation.

Nayar’s use of hyper-real images that verge on abstraction is the result of an obsessive and conflicted desire for both visual minimalism and complexity. There is a profound desire to draw deep concepts by showing what is usually hidden and obscure and by emphasizing materiality and texture. Nayar intentionally creates works in which this aspiration become entangled with larger social issues through the viewer’s act of looking. This exhibition is a conversation between the artist, the artworks and viewers.”

Only So Many Times

Only So Many Times, installed at the show Mapping a World of Curiosities, curated by Ashna Singh, Delhi, 2015

Extract from the text by Kanika Anand for the group show titled “Mapping a world of curiosities”, at Studio Art, New Delhi

Curiosity- A desire to know, an interest leading to inquiry, the quality of fastidiousness, a rare or strange object

Four artists discover a world of their curiosities through the insertion or intervention of objects. By subverting the scale of everyday things, each artist attempts to explore a new curiosity for Parvathi Nayar it is discovering an alternate reality through an animated activation of her drawings

Parvathi Nayar: The play of an unknown landscape dislocations marked in the photographed drawings of Parvathi Nayar exploits the element of chance in a contrived world that parallels the one we live in. Nayar cleverly places familiar objects like a chair, or cacti within her drawings, a voyeuristic peek into a surreal and rather enticing dimension, of a scale unknown. The fact that none of the photographs are photoshopped makes for an even more perplexing outsider to insider view.

Mapping a world of curiosities addresses the dichotomy of society and nature, of subject and object. Each work is a mapping of hungered, thwarted and teased objects- a means of indulging our desires and repeating unappeased thoughts. The show is a theatre of abstractions, where each object performs a role on a stage of the artist’s own making and in doing so, reveals the fragility of all worldly relations- of power, gender, animate and inanimate matter.

Inner Alignment

Inner Alignment is based on the premise that to be authentic and to live a happy and successful life, there are aspects of our inner world that need to be in alignment.

A Play of Shadows

Moving seamlessly between suburban America and the little village of Vavakkadu in postcolonial India, this nuanced literary tale about love, loss and longing will have you rooting for the possibilities of second chances.

Flowers in Ritual - Research - Art - Design

Flowers in Ritual – Research – Art – Design
Flowers are vibrant and all around us. They become an essential part of the Onam rituals, but there is more to them! Join us for this exciting talk between Geetanjali Sachdev, an art and design educator, and Parvathi Nayar, a contemporary artist from Chennai who has unique perspectives on flowers.

Geetanjali, with her approaches in pedagogy and Parvathi and her artistic approaches, this session is all set to make you look at flowers for their beauty, aesthetics, importance in the environment and more!

CORE / COLUMN
profile Core/Column is based on the human spine, which is the centre where all body-related stimuli are processed and understood, the place from which the call to act and respond is sent. There is a sense of familiarity and rupture, as the body is perceived through deep levels of magnification
RADIANT SYMMETRIES
profile Radiant Symmetries relates to the humanistic and the technological, to the dizzying power of speed and the spirit that drives it.
TRACES OF PRESENCE, LOCATION AND LOCALITY
profile Handdrawn graphite on wooden panels, centred thematically around notions of scale, subjectivity and levels of perception
LISTENING TO LIGHT
profile Listening to Light plays with perceptions of how human beings receive and transmit thoughts, ideas, emotions. Growth and transformation are human experiences that are linked with opening our brain so that it may ‘hear’ new possibilities that result in new experiences.
A STORY OF FLIGHT
profile A Story of Flight is site specific. The concept derives from the theme of India-Global within the T2 terminus – ie, of India connecting with the world, through the prism of Mumbai. The 3-d work – best described as “drawn sculpture” – has been created with hand-drawn graphite imagery on (31) shaped wooden panels.
By the mouth of the river
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By the mouth of the river
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By the mouth of the river
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A River Ran Through it
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A River Ran Through it
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Black-and-white graphite drawings

Her black-and-white graphite drawings are multifaceted works that look at the internal/intimate spaces within our bodies, and the external/public spaces in which we live, often through the prism of science and technology.

Drawn sculpture

three-dimensional sculptural forms that are covered with drawings as in the seminal 20-foot high drawing A Story of Flight

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    Parvathi Nayar

    Artist & Writer

    Chennai-based contemporary visual artist, poet and writer Parvathi Nayar is known for her multidisciplinary art, centered on complex drawing practices, video, installations, text and photography. Her black-and-white graphite drawings are multifaceted works that look at the internal/intimate spaces within our bodies, and the external/public spaces in which we live, often through the prism of science and technology. Parvathi’s art talks about different engagements with our environment, and the philosophies of inhabiting them.

    Solos include Atlas of Re-Imaginings (2018, Gallery Veda, Chennai), At the Heart of the Question (2018, Singapore), Haunted by Waters (2017, Dakshinachitra Museum, Chennai), Dissonant Images: Drawing in Time, (2016, New Delhi), The Ambiguity of Landscapes (2014, Chennai), I sing the body electric (2008, Mumbai), Win Lose Draw (2007, Singapore) Drawing is a Verb (Singapore, 2006) journey (1998, Jakarta).

    Installations, including those in public spaces, are WAVE at Alliance Francaise Madras and Gallery Veda, Invite/Refuse at the Indo-German DAMned Art project curated by Florian Matzner and Ravi Agarwal (2018); GenderFluid and Reflecting (on) The Inhabited Crossroads as part of TheHashtag#Collective (Kochi, 2018 and 2016); Parvathi is a founder member of the collective), and The Music of the Spheres (Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2016). She pioneered the form of “drawn sculpture” as in the seminal 20-foot high drawing A Story of Flight, Jai He art program, T2 Terminal, Mumbai international airport and Water of Life/Salt as part of Rajeev Sethi’s Elemental project.

    She presented an installation of drawings and sound titled The Fluidity of Horizons at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014/15. She was one of 70 artists selected to be part of B70, the historical 70th-anniversary birthday show of Amitabh Bachchan in Mumbai. In 2008, her painting Firelight was selected to be featured on ABN Amro’s Dil Se platinum card in Singapore.

    Group shows include confine, International Digital Media Art Festival, (Web-based 2020), Anthesis (Chennai, 2019), Of Memories and Might (Biennale Collateral, Kochi, 2018), L’Attrape Feu (2016, France), To Let the World In (2012, Art Chennai), Af-fair (2008, Dubai), Drawing Out Conversations (Biennale Collateral, 2008, Singapore), Nature Born (2006, Indonesia), popularart (2005, Nehru Centre London)…

    Her works have been collected by institutions such as the Singapore Art Museum, BMW, The Sotheby’s Art Institute, The Australia India Institute and Deutsche Bank. She is the subject of the film “Artists of Chennai: Parvathi Nayar” by photographer/filmmaker Saravana Kumar. She is featured in Parvathi Nayar Artist Interview at http://kochimuzirisbiennale.org/artist-interview-parvathi-nayar/

    She experiments with the Photopoetry form to include collaborations of photos, installations, hand-drawn imagery and poetry. Parvathi’s photopoetry featured in HELD: The Lockdown in Words and Images by the Goethe Institut; poetry presentations include Poetry with Prakriti 2017. Her writings have included commentaries on contemporary culture; as a public speaker, her TEDx talks include “Seeing the world through Different Lenses” (Chennai 2016). Parvathi received her Masters in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London, on a Chevening scholarship.

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