Now I See You

Anusha K is a visual artist born and raised in Saudi Arabia. She recently graduated from NCA, Lahore. Anusha has completed exhibitions and group shows throughout Pakistan and the UAE. Through her paintings, Anusha explores the idea of uprootedness, a shift from one place to another, and not finding a common ground or linkage with one’s own culture and identity. The disassociation with a place that comes due to geographical dislocation, making one feel identity-less, is what she has personally experienced, hence turning it into a body of work. Her artistic practice revolves around the idea of an identity crisis that comes as a result of geographical dislocation and displacement, consequently causing chaos within a person. She distorts spaces in her work to render them unidentifiable.

Through gestural brushwork and layered textures, she conveys the inner turmoil experienced during periods of identity and ‘nationality’ crises and questions the idea of belonging to or relating to a place. The chaotic compositions and absence of recognizable elements push the visuals into a state of chaos, challenging conventional notions of stability and order. Textual references such as music and poetry enrich her paintings, bridging the visual and auditory realms.