Tarini Sethi is a New Delhi based artist. Her artist practice explores themes like human intimacy, body-consciousness and sexuality, and draws from folklore and mythology. Sethi has been featured in Architectural Digest India and many other Indian publications and has been a part of design shows like the Mumbai Urban Arts Festival, as well as solo exhibitions at the IIC Gallery and Chemould CoLab.
Her work focuses on themes of world building, mythology, folk stories, dream worlds and sexual emancipation through a multimedia practice that includes paintings, drawings, and metal sculptures.
Created in direct response to her understanding of declining mental health, skepticism of current political discourse, dread of communalism, and distress at the destruction of the natural world, she attempt to make art that re-defies these realities. Her subjects – some quite human, some quite animal, but none clearly one or the other – fight and ponder, observe and converse, love and luxuriate, often within labyrinthine physical spaces and multi limbed anthropomorphic anatomies.
As a woman from India, existing in a space of extreme sexual oppression and constant scrutiny, she tries to focus as much as possible on the idea that bodies can exist as perfect vessels for exploration, action and sexual emancipation. In the world she create, bodies are freed from the ideas attached to the conventional notion of gender, perfection and beauty.
Taking cues from a range of artistic practices spanning the length of the subcontinent, specifically Kalighat, Miniature, Kavad and Tholu Bommalata, she use these themes and ideas to bring her utopia to life.
To contact me with questions, to buy my work, or to commission an artwork, email me at -
tarinisethi@gmail.com
