Artist Statement
My practice is multidisciplinary, moving across painting, printmaking, poetry, collage, sculpture, extended installation, theatre, and performance art.
My practice involves drawing from actions, music, research and storytelling. Images are formed through a poetic process of mark making, drawing and erasing. The works are inquiries drawn from my surrounding environment, nature, organic forms, evoking rich literary sources like Poetry, Goan folktales, Reimagined stories, songs, in conjunction with everyday life. The orchestrated drama in the work unfolds into a collective experience of the comic-tragic, satire, memories of food and vegetation, speculative fiction, and allegory. The performative body making art taps within, meditating into the universal and spiritual realm of being. My figures fluidly distort into ephemeral textures, dreamscapes merging the tangible world with intangible desires. Heavily influenced by theatre, my work features androgynous figures, women, and various recurring characters caught mid-action. I treat the human body as a performative and political site.
My work explores the ecological through a spiritual, temporal, figurative, abstract, and ecofeminist lens. The images are set on a meditative journey of mark-making, excavating the formless through layers of drawings. There is evocative music in the visual compositions. The colour reverberates in poetic dreamscapes where creatures exist, perform, and move in action.
Life merges with art, adding a socio-political commentary as I draw, paint, print, and sculpt. The act of creation is germinated from my artistic research and interdisciplinary investigations of pigment, flora, fauna, and land.
Here, God is found everywhere—in nature, food, life cycles, fairies, apsaras, masks, and fluid landscapes where infinite love can be cultivated. Driven intuitively into abstract renditions, the works draw literary inspiration from Rumi, Kabir, Ragas, Konkani Jazz songs, and memories, in this rhapsody of images. There is hope; there is a piece of heaven in the eyes of the viewer.
I animate the space around me with whatever resources are at hand — words, paint, the body in motion, the act itself.
Alongside my visual work, I have also written and performed solo pieces, such as Eggsistential Cracksis, watchperson and Sea of Memories
Currently, I am researching materials found at the site of Camurlim Plateau, and its flora/fauna. The work will be explored through pigment, handprint and landscape paintings with casein on linen
Asavari Gurav (b. 1997, Goa, India) has pursued BFA, Painting and MVA, Graphic Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, 2021.She is a visual artist, poet, performer, and educator. Her practice is multidisciplinary, involving various media such as painting, printmaking, poetry, sculpture, theatre, and interdisciplinary extended installations. She has also exhibited and performed across places like Goa, Mumbai, Baroda, Jaipur, Delhi, and Ahmedabad. She has received Space 118 Fine Arts Grant (2024-2025) had her first solo exhibition, “Ballad of the Known and the Unknown,” at IIC Delhi (2023) as part of the Purushottam Annual Merit Award for Printmaking. She also exhibited at the Space Studio Summer Residency Open Studio Vadodara, Gujarat( 2023), the Embark group show at Ark Foundation, Vadodara, Gujarat (2023), and the Goa Open Arts Catalyst Grant, Goa (2021). Her practice involves drawing from actions, research and storytelling. Images are formed through a poetic process of mark making, drawing and erasing. The works are inquiries drawn from nature, organic forms, evoking rich literary sources like Poetry, Goan folktales, Reimagined stories, songs, in conjunction with everyday life. The orchestrated drama in the work unfolds into a collective experience of the comic-tragic, satire, memories of food and vegetation, speculative fiction, and allegory. The performative body making art taps within, meditating into the universal and spiritual realm of being. Her figures fluidly distort into ephemeral textures, dreamscapes merging the tangible world with intangible desires. Heavily influenced by theatre, her artwork features androgynous figures, women, and various recurring characters caught mid-action. She often treats the human body as a performative and political site. Alongside her visual work, she is an active theatre practitioner who writes and performs solo pieces, such as Eggsistential Cracksis and Sea of Memories.