Parvathi Nayar

Part of the contemporary art exhibition at Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia curated by Shaheen Merali.

As a founder member of The Hashtag#Collective, Parvathi is  pleased to with Ravi Cavale/Serendip Art to present ‘Voices’ – a very special initiative where we are curating conversations between artists and arts-writers.
It is important for the voice of the artist to be heard clear and strong, and never more so than during the Pandemic.
Equally, arts writers have an enormous role to play in establishing the larger contexts and milieus where the artistic voice can be engaged with.
Artist and arts writer together, we believe, will synergistically create important dialogues for and about our times.

Only So Many Times, installed at the show Mapping a World of Curiosities, curated by Ashna Singh, Delhi, 2015

Extract from the text by Kanika Anand for the group show titled “Mapping a world of curiosities”, at Studio Art, New Delhi

Curiosity- A desire to know, an interest leading to inquiry, the quality of fastidiousness, a rare or strange object

Four artists discover a world of their curiosities through the insertion or intervention of objects. By subverting the scale of everyday things, each artist attempts to explore a new curiosity for Parvathi Nayar it is discovering an alternate reality through an animated activation of her drawings

Parvathi Nayar: The play of an unknown landscape dislocations marked in the photographed drawings of Parvathi Nayar exploits the element of chance in a contrived world that parallels the one we live in. Nayar cleverly places familiar objects like a chair, or cacti within her drawings, a voyeuristic peek into a surreal and rather enticing dimension, of a scale unknown. The fact that none of the photographs are photoshopped makes for an even more perplexing outsider to insider view.

Mapping a world of curiosities addresses the dichotomy of society and nature, of subject and object. Each work is a mapping of hungered, thwarted and teased objects- a means of indulging our desires and repeating unappeased thoughts. The show is a theatre of abstractions, where each object performs a role on a stage of the artist’s own making and in doing so, reveals the fragility of all worldly relations- of power, gender, animate and inanimate matter.

Inner Alignment is based on the premise that to be authentic and to live a happy and successful life, there are aspects of our inner world that need to be in alignment.

Moving seamlessly between suburban America and the little village of Vavakkadu in postcolonial India, this nuanced literary tale about love, loss and longing will have you rooting for the possibilities of second chances.

Flowers in Ritual – Research – Art – Design
Flowers are vibrant and all around us. They become an essential part of the Onam rituals, but there is more to them! Join us for this exciting talk between Geetanjali Sachdev, an art and design educator, and Parvathi Nayar, a contemporary artist from Chennai who has unique perspectives on flowers.

Geetanjali, with her approaches in pedagogy and Parvathi and her artistic approaches, this session is all set to make you look at flowers for their beauty, aesthetics, importance in the environment and more!

Her black-and-white graphite drawings are multifaceted works that look at the internal/intimate spaces within our bodies, and the external/public spaces in which we live, often through the prism of science and technology.

three-dimensional sculptural forms that are covered with drawings as in the seminal 20-foot high drawing A Story of Flight