DEEPA JAYARAMAN

Deepa Jayaraman, is an Indian visual artist based in New Delhi. She dominantly uses black ink as layered traces like a black noise, a quiet in disquieting lines, finding strength in the drama around the void. Blurred edges, like shadows, reveal human emotions exposed at the brink of chaos, where boundaries dissolve and the latent eccentricities emerge. Holding on to fantasy and illustrative art, she is at a liminal space of duality between childhood and adulthood, creating characters who exist at the edge of disruptions- oblivious children, semiotic animals, and masquerading adults.

Her process is freehand and improvisatory, using mediums that allow quick, spontaneous drawings and layered compositions. She traces not just palpable politics but poetic themes of society reeling under the veneers of idealism, exploring how identity is constructed through stories and images. Through fantasy as both coping mechanism and manipulation, her works reimagines archetypes to visually articulate collective anxieties and the nuanced complexities of human experience.