DEEPA JAYARAMAN

Deepa Jayaraman, is an Indian visual artist based in New Delhi. She finds inspiration in the soliloquy of her contradictory mind, oscillating between dreams and nightmares, innocence and macabre, while navigating the intricate relationship between individuals and society. She creates as an immediate purge or research conceptualization, using fantasy as both a coping mechanism and a tool of manipulation. This duality shapes human-centric explorations of how idealistic illusions mask flaws, inclusivity, and peculiarity. Historical narratives, art, and media construct and reinforce societal ideals, often perpetuating cycles of inclusion and exclusion that lead to conflict and dysfunction. She explores this through personifying idealistic fantasy and examining parasitism, how specific ideas thrive over others, much like a parasite relies on its host. 

Her artistic practice unfolds across interdisciplinary mediums, from drawings to moving images, crafting raw, layered compositions through graphic lines and black ink. Drawing from illustrations, sequential comics, Indian mythological hybridity, and the technical mastery of Disney animation, She explores how idealized stories shape identity. She aims to dismantle distorted ideal perceptions and present alternative realities. By embracing depth and ambiguity, she strives to visually articulate collective anxieties and the layered gradation of the human experience.