Shown as part of Echo, the Chartwell Trust New Commissions exhibition at Artspace Aotearoa, Tarika Sabherwal’s paintings draw on Hindu mythology, personal narrative, and world-building to question how stories are inherited — and who gets to tell them.
In this walkthrough, Sabherwal discusses airbrushing, fabric, and figuration as tools for holding memory and ambivalence. Moving between close detail and installation views, the video situates the work within broader conversations around mythology, patriarchy, and contemporary South Asian identity, while leaving space for the images to speak on their own terms.
