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My Mother has an OTG oven
Embroidered Comic Text, Punch needling on canvas 2.5“ x 2.5“ each 2026 This is an embroidered comic about the objects that give us comfort, the ones we are attached to. The subtle, maybe fleeting grief we feel when they break, break down, stop working, become unusable, or get lost. The sadness in disposing them. The memories that are held in them. Where do you even dispose these things that hold so many memories, so much of us in them? Oh, how much grief there is in that. I t
Lakshmi Nagaraj
2 days ago1 min read


Bits and Pieces, This and That
Our Indiranagar Home Mixed Media and Personal Archives Various Sizes 2022 - 23 Many young adults maintain a "memory box"—a collection of keepsakes tied to cherished memories, opened occasionally to relive special moments. In this series, I use the physicality of these objects in my art to fill in the gaps in my memory and reconstruct my girlhood. To counter the foggy, unreliable recollections that ADHD brings with it, I question: can saved objects like a childhood notebook, a
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 251 min read


The Art of Art Titles
Text on paper 8“ x 6“ each 2023 This piece positions writing about art—be it exhibition texts, artwork titles or curatorial notes—as an art in itself. Over time, it has come to represent a larger writing project: a challenge to myself to write more about art, pushing my practice to be interdisciplinary. Now, my art writing is a part of my artistic practice, not just a supplement to it.
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 251 min read


Critical Plate
Assemblage 8“ in diameter 2024 Breakfast is not the most important meal of my day - the cocktail of medicines that comes after it is.
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 251 min read


Navigating Mapping Memories
Artist book, hand-bound with embroidery thread 30 pages, 9"x6" 2024-2025 When you're a self-taught artist, it's the small stuff you sweat. You have the ideas and the talent, but the practical details trip you up: Where do I start? Which steps come first? How much time does each part take? Is my to-do list missing something crucial? What’s that technique called? And then, of course, the dreaded realisation: oh no, I hadn’t thought of this before—what do I do now? When I began
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 241 min read


Hanging by a Thread
Personal objects sewn with thread 15" x 20" 2025 Many young adults maintain a "memory box"—a collection of keepsakes tied to cherished memories, opened occasionally to relive special moments. In this work, I bring out all my keepsakes from my memory box to stitch them together—tickets, bills, wrapping papers, textiles, notes, tags, cards and more. Using thread, I connect these fragments of my life into a tapestry.
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 241 min read


The Passage of Time
Textiles, paint, clay and papers on canvas 6“ x 6“ each 2024 If you were locked in a room for the rest of your life, how would you tell the passage of time? This series critiques systems of incarceration by viewing the outside world through a prisoner’s eyes on different days. In the last painting, the window in the canvas has been cut out. I invite audiences to reflect on the question: what would you see, what would you imagine, what would you hallucinate? This mockup depict
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 241 min read


Mapping Memories: The Lost Spaces of Yelahanka
Public Installation 4' x 13.5' x 7.5' 2024 ‘Mapping Memories: The Lost Establishments of Yelahanka’ is a community engagement art project that explores the evolving public spaces of Yelahanka New Town, a suburban neighbourhood in Bangalore. Through interviews and memory mapping activities with 32 residents, the project documents places of rest that have been lost to time. The objective is to urge people to sit with their memories of their public lives and to etch these public
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 181 min read


My Mother's Hands and Mine
Punch needling on canvas 2.5“ x 2.5“ each 2026 In this series, I explore my mother’s journey of motherhood, through her eyes The thing with idolising someone is that when they make a mistake, your reactions can be extreme - disbelief, anger, disappointment, blame. And I have done that for a long time with my mother. I’m 26 now, and slowly realising that she too was once this age. Making mistakes. Just a girl. I also sometimes think of having a child of my own and it fills me
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 181 min read


mapping memories
it is my love story to muruga actually, everything i have told in my college application is a lie. as proof of my love, you can see this picture of taj mahal the outside of taj mahal is a metaphor for outside his heart the inside, however is as follows more than 50kg taj mahal
Lakshmi Nagaraj
Apr 181 min read
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