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PERFORMANCE  Offerings 2025Usi 2025Make me a mountain 2024Offerings 2024
Offerings 2023
Offerings 2022
Rice Cooker 2022
ALAKKALA 2019
H:O:M:E 2018
Mokita 2017



MOVING IMAGEUntitled 02 2022
Untitled 2022
INTERWORLD 2021
smooth-time 2020
Portal of Possibilities 2020
A Utah Time Signature 2019
Book of Dream 2018
A Los Angeles Time Signature 2018
An Arctic Time Signature 2015

INSTALLATIONBurial 2023
Murti 2018
The Moving Image 2017

PHOTOGRAPHY
Discreet Relations of Decay 2022
Diosma 2020Territory of Darkness 2020
Werebodies 2020
Walking In My Shoes (Ondru) 2018
Yumarrala Ngulu (Ondru) 2018
Pool Hall 2017
They Are Climbing Mt Asgard 2014
Discs 2014
Distant, Relative 2013
Voiceless Journeys (Ondru) 2012
Allery Exhibitions 2008

DRAWINGS Dry Yellow 2020-
Dry Red 2020-
Dry Blue 2018-

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Usi, 2025


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USI
Rich Mix, London
7pm in Off The Ground by Bold Mellon

Usi (Tamil for needle) in Bharatanatyam dance is an offbeat rhythmic shift—unexpected, syncopated, and precise. Typically used to create contrast and maintain rhythmic complexity, it interrupts the expected flow, offering anticipation. This performance stretches Usi beyond a fleeting moment into an extended 20-minute duration, suspending resolution. The body marks time, through one repeated gesture­–feet striking the floor, gaze rising and falling, a promise of an arrival. 

Drawing on Anurima Banerji’s ‘paratopia,’ this work experiments with the body as a temporal needle threading ‘alongside’ established narrative of expectation by opening ‘another’ dimension with repetition, abstraction and duration.


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