Rakhi Peswani

Amant Residency Siena

Summer 2025

Rakhi Peswani is an artist and a pedagogue with over two decades of art and teaching experience in various public and private institutions of higher education in India. Over the last two decades, she has significantly worked with painting, sculpture and installations, using hand embroidery and textiles, as dominant media forms. Working with relational aesthetics, she navigates between intimate and social aspects of viewing, integrating the material, the haptic and the visceral.

Her work has been widely shown in institutional and curated exhibitions significantly, Mardin Biennale (Turkey, 2022), Curitiba Biennale (Brazil, 2019), Colombo Biennale ( Sri Lanka, 2014), and Hangzhou Triennale (PRC, 2013). She has shown her works in solo exhibitions in Mumbai (2006, 2007, 2013, 2018), Delhi ( 2009, 2015), Hong Kong (2011), Hamburg (2019, 2021) and Bangalore (2021).

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Rakhi Peswani, Splittings, Couplings, Uprooting, series of eight sculptural works installed in a single site. Variable dimensions. Velvet fabric, jute, polycotton filler and iron armature.

Rakhi Peswani, Fruits of Labour, 2013. Dyed, organically treated and torn muslin, hand built quilted cotton fabric, found used clothes, agricultural tools, buckwheat hull, found and edited sound. 500 cms x 500cms, 800cms. 5 channel surround, 8’ continuous loop.

Rakhi Peswani, Love Labour Loss, 2022. Velvet fabric, polycotton filler and iron armature. Dimensions vary when installed.