Richi Bhatia
India
Richi Bhatia (born 1990, India) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between drawing, performance, installation, and object-making. Rooted in process and material experimentation, her work often emerges from sustained, labor-intensive engagements with everyday environments, particularly food systems and market ecologies.
Working with organic matter such as fish scales, meat, and other perishable materials, she develops a tactile language that reflects on transformation, residue, and the permeability of the body. Grounded in lived experience, Bhatia’s practice considers the body as both subject and sensing tool—one that absorbs, registers, and responds to its surroundings.
Her works explore questions of home, migration, and care, often drawing from the transnational circulation of goods and the intimate rituals embedded within them.
Through repetitive actions and material translation, she traces slow processes of change, where fragility and endurance coexist, and where personal narratives unfold in relation to broader social and environmental conditions.
Gallery Isabelle
Founded in 2006 in Dubai, Gallery Isabelle is a contemporary art gallery committed to long-term artist development.
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