The body is a vessel that carries memory, history, and transformation. It endures, resists, and evolves while holding within it the traces of lived experience. Reclamation through Self-Representation brings artists Vasudhaa Narayanan and Vidushi Gupta into dialogue on how self-representation can serve as both care and resistance.

Narayanan’s ongoing lens-based project spoiled fruit examines the repercussions of internalized patriarchy on women’s bodies, reclaiming space and redefining form through acts of self-acceptance. Gupta’s practice, including her project Oscillation, uses photography and text to navigate cycles of memory, family, and selfhood, assembling an index of shifting variables that shape personal identity.

Framed within TRI Art & Culture’s exhibition Soft Circulations, this TRI Talk invites audiences to reflect on the body as a site of reclamation is one where tenderness, self-expression, and representation become tools for healing and resistance.