Ritika Sharma
Ritika Sharma
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Preferred pronouns:she/her
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Birth year:1994
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My current project titled “Mind the Gap”, largely focuses on visual explorations of, how I am gazing at a place while walking and how a place is responding to gazing at me. This further investigates the conscious/unconscious purpose/intention while walking.
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Ritika Sharma is a visual artist working with mixed media based in Delhi NCR, India. Her work engages with everyday practices, experiences, and observations; routine life, local spaces, and its involved politics. Her visual inquiries concern the construction of the banal and the extraordinary essence of ordinary practices. Extending her intervention towards investigating the infra-ordinary referring to something that is neither banal nor exotic.
Sharma's process is based on the poetics of perception, developed from the ideas of personal discomfort and public/local concerns when navigating a city. Looking upon various layers of socio-political aspects, she explores and involves banal elements, stalk phrases, directional phrases, sign symbols, and motion in her practice. Most recently these are imagined and constructed in the context of a deceptively simple question; What happens when nothing happens? A short but integral part of this approach lies in the form of conversations and a documentation through object modification.
Every day is structured by routine and ambiguity and Ritika intends to delve into these through mixed media paintings, drawings, photography, video, and found objects; particularly observing the threshold and Gaps in the physical as well as the psychical world.
