Deepa Jayaraman

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Deepa Jayaraman

Preferred pronouns:

she/her
Birth year:

1988
Primarily based in or works from:

India
Skills:

animation drawing illustration painting research storyboarding
Topics:

collaboration collective psychology colonialism death war and conflict
Contact information:

Currently working on:

The "I Echo" series, a collection of sound sketches that explores unfamiliar vibrations and acclimates to surroundings. These recordings range from innocence to insolence, inspired by nature and provoked by human intervention.

Quick Facts:

Deepa Jayaraman is an Indian visual artist based in New Delhi. Her works range from drawing on paper to animation. She received the 2022 Swiss Culture Grant hosted by 'artlink' in partnership with Sudkulturfonds. In 2022, her drawing 'Ascending Sparks' was featured in AGNI Magazine: Issue-96, U.S. Literary Journal, Boston University. She appeared as the 2021 Cover and Feature Artist and Contributor to AGNI - Issue 93-U.S. Literary Journal, Boston University. She received the 2020 'Five Million Incidents' Grant, Goethe Institut\Max Mueller Bhavan, in collaboration with Raqs Media Collective. Her works were part of various notably curated presentations- 'OUTSIDE: IN', 'Sound Paintings': A series of Vignettes by Raw Mango curated by Sneha Khanwalkar (Music Director/Composer) (2020); She is a Gold Medalist with distinction in M.F.A. (2011) and B.F.A. (2009) concerning academics.

She focuses on exploring the hidden tectonic forces beneath society's surface. She is interested in the symbiotic and parasitic relationship between human intervention and nature, from mutualism to manipulation. Her work delves into the signs of manipulation in human conditions, particularly in the socio-political aspects of human systems, which she captures as visual mnemonics through her drawings.

Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:

AGNI – U.S. Literary Journal Publication, Boston University. Issue 96, 2022; Drawing & Issue 93, Cover and Feature Artist of AGNI, one of the major U.S. Journals for fiction,poetry,and essay, 2021
‘Five Million Incidents’, Project Grant by Goethe-Institut\Max Mueller Bhavan In Collaboration With Raqs Media Collective.‘WE THE PHOTONS’, Moving Images|Sound -With Sound By Sneha Khanwalkar, 2020
RESONANCE, Project- Presented: OUTSIDE:IN|A Series Of Personal Vignettes By Raw Mango Curated By Music Composer And Director : Sneha Khanwalkar, 2020.

Highest educational degree:

Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A) , Specialization: Painting , College of Art/University of Delhi; New Delhi, 2009-2011. A Gold Medalist with respect to academics.

Work samples:

‘WE THE PHOTONS’ (16:9) 7:06 minutes video.

Five Million Incidents A project dealing with a string of ‘moving images’ spanning across to interpret and deconstruct what we perceive as ‘Ideal Reflections’ through the unique relationship of image and sound. Re-interpreting from a racial lens, two artists immersed themselves into the creation of an illustrative re-telling to present an alternate reality - one that questions the systematic issue of the practice of coloration. Re-imagining through moving images, an animated film (with sound by Sneha Khanwalkar).

Resonance

Worm, that is I

Series- Hypermnesic Cluster

'Borrowed Wings', Series-Hypermnesic Cluster, Pen and ink on paper, 29.5” X 65”, 2022.
Clustered imposter cupids taking away the wings of vultures, impersonation to extinction.
‘Diamonds’, Series- Hypermnesic Cluster, Pen and ink on paper & digital processing, 15” X 8”, 2020.
The shining smiles without the face masks before the onset of covid-19 pandemic.
‘Millimeters’, Series Hypermnesic Cluster, Pen and ink on paper, 14” X 10”,2020.
Context-the drawing immediately after the first lockdown of the covid-19 outbreak, depicts my brain imaging of the physical distancing among the human race before the pandemic, when we were just millimeters away.