Ishani Chatterjee

Lives and works in Eindhoven, Netherlands

Artist statement

Challenging the normative set in the context of India, Ishani uses the medium of spatial negotiation and performance design to create counter-narratives within political activism. Journalistic investigations and the power of communal interventions play a very important role in her practice that starts with the embodiment of triggers while trying to scale up to reach a wider audience outside the realm of design. Words, gestures, vocation and emotion while influencing one another create space for her understanding of what design is and what it can do to break the normative. Her projects start from an irk or frustration that is brought to the surface through different social encounters in her personal life.

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