NEHA KUDCHADKAR India, b. 1992

Neha Kudchadkar (b. 1982, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, and the Faculty of Fine Art, MSU, Baroda, and has been a student at the Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry. Her work has been shown as part of group shows at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, Project 88, Mumbai, Law Warschaw Gallery, St Paul, and Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In 2019 she had a solo exhibition – All That is in This Thing – at Display, Berlin. She is a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship and the Junior Fellowship, Government of India. She is also a co-curator of the Indian Ceramics Triennale. Neha is a founding member of beej, a performing art collective in Mumbai.

Neha lives and works in Mumbai, India.

Mentor:

Sree Goswami

Proposed Project:

Weightlifter (Auto Ethnography Through Objects)

Project Overview:

This moving image work is part of a recurring project – Auto Ethnography Through Objects – which mark my body in the socio-political space it occupies through objects, at different points of my life. Weightlifter documents a difficult, precarious, uncomfortable moment in time, made heavy by grief, breakdowns, depression and helplessness. It records the guilt and struggle of breathing as a world collapses around myself.  Rage, shame, self sabotage piled on over years quietly excavated and released through the process of making.