About — Janhavi

Janhavi (b. 1993) is an independent artist from India, who currently lives and works in Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Through her work, she explores the intersections of memory, food, gender and ecology. She’s drawn to the inaccuracies in folkloric structures of storytelling; and employs the tools of performative fiction in recreating narratives that transform her accumulated experience of the ‘self’ in context and contradiction to her surroundings. She often uses food as a mutating metaphor to stage personal, anatomical and systemic enquiries in her practice. She primarily works with photography and film, and engages with the conceptual function of digital media to remember, misremember and even forget information. Her practice also invites sculptural and installation-based methods to disrupt how digital media is conventionally consumed. She consciously traces the ecological and socio-political trajectories of the materials and processes she interacts with.

Education :
MFA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University 2022
Post Grad Diploma in Art History and Curatorial Studies, BDL Museum 2017
Bachelor’s of Mass Media (Journalism), Mumbai University 2014

Artist Member :
Backlit, Nottingham
Primary, Nottingham
East Side Projects, Birmingham

Solo Exhibitions :

Group Exhibitions :

Backlit Members Show | July - August 2024 | Nottingham
Our Stories Are Wild | University of Derby’s Nature Connection Conference|| Derby 2024
Mirrors, Windows, Portals curated by Dr. Assunta Ruocco| University of Lincoln| Lincoln 2024
’An eternal hour’ | Slow tide X Goa Photo | Goa, 2023
‘Co’| Backlit Gallery| Nottingham, 2023
Interim | Apre Art House| Mumbai, 2023
Unhidden| Backlit Gallery| Nottingham, 2022
NAE open | New Art Exchange | Nottingham, 2022
‘Night of the year’ curation by Dr. Lola Macdougall | Les Recontres De’Arles Photo Festival | Arles, 2022
IWD X Carousel | Carousel | Nottingham, 2022
‘Practicing Uncertainty’ | Backlit Gallery | Nottingham, 2021
Room to Bloom | Ecological and Post Colonial Feminism workshop | Athens, 2021
‘Aftermath’ | Nottingham Contemporary | Nottingham, 2021
Digital exhibition and Print Sale | Open Doors Gallery | London, 2021
‘ObjectIF’ | Surface Gallery | Nottingham, 2021
Digital Exhibition | Fotofemmeunited | Paris, 2021
‘Waypoint’ | Backlit Gallery | Nottingham, 2020
Wisdom Maps | Project Fuel | Online (2020)
Extensions | Goa photo festival (indefinitely postponed)
‘Memory Of Land’ | New Art Exchange | Nottingham (2019-2020)
Optikal Asylum | Sounds Of Kranti | Mumbai (2019)
Open Studio | Space 118 | Mumbai (2018)
Open Studio | Soorya Village | Colombo, Sri Lanka (2016)
Open Studio | Kochi Muziris Beinnale | Master Practice Studio residency (2015)

Residencies :
UK X Hong Kong Digital Residency with Near Now, Fact Liverpool, Platform Asia, and Videotage HK (August - October 2024)
Backlit Studio Residency | Ongoing (November ‘23 - August ‘24)
Curate Residency, New Art Exchange | 2024
Space 118 Mumbai | 2018
RTX Colombo, Sri Lanka | 2016
Kochi Muziris Biennale Master Practice Studio | Kochi 2015

Awards + Grants :
Grand Plan Fund, 2023
DYCP Fund Award, Art Council England 2023
NAE + Backlit Studio Bursary, 2023
Near Now Ideas Fund Award, 2023
NTU student Scholarship 2020