Vridhhi Chaudhry: Interdisciplinary Art and Contemporary Visual Research Studio

Her work is shaped by the space between belonging and displacement, where identity becomes fluid and continually renegotiated. Drawing from Homi Bhabha’s idea of the third space, she looks at how cultural memory forms during transition. Judith Butler’s writing on performativity informs her understanding of the body as shaped through repeated gestures. These gestures can both construct and undo the self. She explores this tension through ritual, mask-making, and slow, durational acts. She is inspired by ritual practices and relational aesthetics. Performance is not treated as spectacle but as a shared condition that exists between bodies, materials, and time. Repetition and sensory actions create situations where grief, care, and memory can be felt rather than narrated. She draws from dreams, myths, and inherited knowledge to examine how the body remembers what language cannot hold. For her, performance is not only aesthetic but also a method of sensorial healing. Slow actions allow attention to settle. Touch, weight, water, and breath become tools for listening to inherited experience. Through ritual performance, watercolour painting, and the shaping of masks, she asks how we care for what we inherit and how grief can be transformed into something livable and repeatable.