Selected works that are at the intersection of visual arts, research and education engaging community groups.

2. K O Y A L
R A H E J A
Art, Research & Education
Selected works
Koyal Raheja’s artistic practice is focused on
connecting her autobiographical memory to
public history through drawings, paintings and
physical spaces. Her artistic research lies in
exploring techniques that have been transmitted
from previous generations, with a consciousness
of linking oneself to the past as a way of
recognising oneself and our contemporary
identity. Pigment on organza-silk

4. ‘Each form represents one suspended
element, summing up to serve as a corridor
within the gallery space. By passing the
gallery an action is staged, one that
contributes to disorient us. What we see is a
crisis of perception: we become and
contribute to becoming, us and those
around us. the ghosts, or in any case we
become suspect figures with revealed,
vulnerable traits’.
Text from ‘La forma del resto,’ di Francesco
Lauretta, March 2019.
Exhibited at Jules Maidoff Palazzo, Florence,
Italy.

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On-site research
2013 Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal Gas Traged,
World’s worst industrial disaster, 1984
2016 Abandoned Mumbai Mills
2017 Industrial factories in Peenya, Bangalore

8. MAOS 2 (mobila-aural observation station), Group show
Hand stitched textile and bamboo structure embedded with
speakers playing recordings from the park.
Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, Bangalore, India, December 2011

10. Pigments and pastel on paper, Exhibited at Accaventiquattro Casa Galleria,
Prato, Italy, September 2018

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Interaction /
With the artisans in Via Maggio and Via
Toscanella, Firenze and a workshop
attended in Arezzo based on a traditional
technique called Intarsia (decorative
wood inlay).
On site research with
artisans in the Oltrarno
district, Florence and in
Arezzo, Italy.
Sgraffito from the word
‘graffiare’ literally
translated meaning to
scratch, commonly used
in Fresco painting.

14. A darkened room, ‘Invitation’ brings
together and assembles objects brought
across borders and objects that were left
behind during the bloodshed of the Partition
of India and Pakistan, 1947. Working with a
combination of the story narrated by my
grandparents and stories of their freinds who
survived the event, the work throws light on
objects that are transported in a state of
emergency.

15. Conversational exchange between a family from
Indian and one from Pakistan about pre and
post partition stories and habbits.