artist statement
  1. "My practice has evolved with its relationship to diverse women through diverse age groups over the past decade looking at participants through the lens of gender and urbanization. My projects have mostly included housewives, small entrepreneurs, differently-abled women along with women who have suffered abuse, suffer from body image related violence and mental health amongst themes of visibility and systemic erasure. From what began as a means of world-building from the perspective of Princess Pea in my early years, I have moved towards a more collaborative, time-based and intervention led practice within the three communities I currently work with. My practice has moved into thinking about the politics and aesthetics of care, women-led narratives of self and economies of domestic life amongst women and children."

- Pea

 

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The artist was born in Ferozpur, India in 1980, and achieved her Master's degree in Fine Arts from the College of Arts, New Delhi. Through her contemporary art practices, Princess Pea brings to the forefront of international issues of tradition, identity and celebrity with an underlying satire on global societal concerns. Through her carefully constructed alter ego, the anonymous female artist seeks to challenge our conception of what constitutes femininity and womanhood. Princess Pea is based in Gurgaon, India.

This world of Princess Pea treads a fine line between the world of fairy tale and the mundane. The broad scope of art challenges perceptions about our conceived notions of the self.  As Princess Pea, the artist presents to the world her alter ego in the form of a ‘living toy’ an anime-style figure that can neither talk, smell nor hear, it's a fictional world and she is far away from this world. The practice revolves around the ideas of identity, notions of perfection, self-worth, and further inquires the conflicts between traditional and contemporary roles of women in Indian society.

Gender-based discrimination against female children is pervasive across the world; it is seen in all strata of society and manifests in various forms. It is argued that, on account of this inferior treatment, females often fail to understand their rights. This is more predominant in India and a pressing issue that the artist seeks to address.

 

 

E X H I B I T I O N S

Selected Solo Exhibitions: 

 

2023, Expectations, Bikaner House, New Delhi

2023, Days, Love Bird Studio, New Delhi

2022, Online, Khod se Pooche Bihar Women, Bihar

2021, IGNCA Museum, New Delhi

2021,  AORA:III London Gallery Virtual Space, London

2018, Room for revolt, residency at HH Art Space, Goa

2017, Proxies, IAF, New Delhi

2015, Sunrise Ceremonies, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai

2014, Born Out of Fire, Exhibit 320, New Delhi

2014, Pecked Jostled and Teased - II”, Exhibit320, New Delhi

2014, Pecked Jostled and Teased - I, Exhibit320, New Delhi

2010, PoBox-I,IAF,Exhibit 320, New Delhi

2009, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Rob Dean Art Gallery, Blackall Studio, London.

2009, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Rob Dean Art Gallery, India Art Summit, New Delhi. 

 

Group exhibitions: 

 

2022, Extra Time, Khoj International Artist Association, New Delhi.

2022, Svasa Life,Svasahomes, Bangalore

2022, Good life Mahindra Museum X A day of possibilities,Pune

2014, Art Chennai - Art Assemblage - India Art Fair, New Delhi, 

2014, Exhibit 320 

2013, Canvas For Life, Ritanjali and WCI, The Oberoi Gurgaon 

2013, Sculpted Images, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai  

2013, Miniature Rewind, Art Dubai, Grosvenor Gallery London 

2012, Sakshi Gallery Mumbai

2011, His & Her Story, Exhibit 320, New Delhi 

2011, The Contemporary Sultanate, Exhibit 320, New Delhi. 

2011, Census of Sense, Exhibit 320, New Delhi.

2010, Dolls, Rob Dean Art in association with Gallery Sumukha, Banglore

2010, Elephant Parade, Elephant Family London 

2007, Miniscule Marvel, Contemplate in association with Gallery BMB, Mumbai

2006, Now and Then, Shrine Empire Gallery,New Delhi

2006, A Compensation for what has been lost, Travancore Art Gallery, New Delhi.

2005, Visual-Dialogue, Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi. 

 

Selected Appearances:

 

2018, Princess Dorothy - Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi 

2018, Paracosm - “Mind the Gap”

2018, MIXX + DYSCO, Mumbai

2018, Paracosm - Design Fabric, Mumbai

2018, Born of fire, x Love Birds, Lakme Fashion Week, Mumbai 

2017, AD x Lodha, Mumbai 2017 Paracosm, 

2017, Platform Magazine, Odd Bird, New Delhi 

2015, Princess Pea X Pero, Amazon India Fashion Week, New Delhi