DEEPA JAYARAMAN

Deepa Jayaraman, is an Indian visual artist based in New Delhi. Her drawings are spontaneous, freehand, and improvisational. They emerge from both random thoughts and carefully considered thematic concerns. She describes her works as an uneasy loop circling between facts and fiction. Satirical and ironic, her images appear dark, monochromatic, and unreal, yet for her they are absolutely real.
 
She draws through layers of graphic lines over figurations that are purging out their dreams and nightmares. She uses black lines as black noise, a noise without sound, absorbing the surrounding drama. Attempting to see through the veneers of idealism to the infested reality, she draws not just the palpable politics but the poetic undercurrents of society. A world of uncertainties and 24/7 information impingement, perpetually nudging familiar and unfamiliar feelings. Feelings that swing from innocence to the macabre.