Mayuri Chari

Mayuri Chari, born in 1991 in a carpenter's family in Goa is a conceptual artist based and practising out
of Bombay. She has completed her Bachelor in Fine Arts, from Goa College of Art (2013) and a Masters in
Painting from SN school of Art, Hyderabad Central University (2017). She is influenced by the statement,
‘A woman is not born, she is created.’ She observes women are treated in society either as goddesses or
as objects of consumption. Through her work, she argues that women should be treated equally as
individuals. Values/ manners are an important set of ideas for both sexes but an extra set of them is
designed especially for women so that they could be judged and questioned at every step. Through the series
"I Was Not Created For Pleasure", she creates a series of such experiences. Miniature paintings, from
which she inspires feminine image, she refers to in her paintings, as she discusses the Politics of the
Female Body through historical context. She uses self-written poems and statements on cloth, watercolour
drawings as well as objects or mediums from women's lives as a medium in her artwork. Pillows, cow dung,
curtains, threads etc become mediums to depict women's daily life. Mayuri lives and works in Mumbai.
Mayuri’s works from the series, 'We the people', unfold the episodes that have taken place during the
lockdown, focusing on the Plight of Women who had to go through arduous journeys. Female representation
and definite leadership are observed and expressed through her work.

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