DEEPA JAYARAMAN

Deepa Jayaraman, is an Indian visual artist based in New Delhi. Her artistic practice explores blurred edges of shadows, like human emotions exposed at the brink of chaos, where boundaries dissolve. She uses black ink as layered shadows-black noise, a quiet disturbance in restless lines. She traces not just palpable politics but poetic themes of society reeling under the veneers of idealism.
She drifts between dreams and nightmares in a vicarious 24/7 information age. Emotions oscillating between innocence and macabre. Drawing upon character archetypes of Indian mythologies, colonial mythologies, folklores, and contemporary media. Exploring how identity is constructed through stories and images. She explores this through personifying idealistic fantasy and examining parasitism, how specific ideas thrive over others, much like a parasite relies on its host. She sees idealistic fantasy as a trickster figure as Carl Jung described it as "an archetypal psychic structure of extreme antiquity", challenging perception and revealing hidden truths. Therefore, she uses fantasy both as a coping mechanism and a tool of manipulation.