Artist Statement

Archana, based out of India makes multi sensory installations and experiences. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, she wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces of emotional response. contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life. Time and memory always play a key role. Her works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction. She believes in understanding cultural differences, limits and dilemma to interpret stories that forms an identity of space, people and individuals. She has worked and researched on experience through olfaction, food art and memories of past, present and future. With a conceptual approach, she absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.

Her aim is to create experiences which can narrate stories of intangible thoughts and emotions. Her Architectural and user experience design practice has helped her intertwine in different media, and dedicatedly working toward her aim.She has showcased her work on national and international platform and received appreciation by various prestigious awards. Currently, building a human design cafe in holistic range of Himalayas