My Body Was a River Once in San Jose | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley's Leading Weekly

"India-born, San Francisco-based artist Anoushka Mirchandani draws inspiration from the Apsaras-South Asian celestial beings whose name translates to "one who moves flowingly in the waters"-and reimagines these mythic figures as vessels of intergenerational movement. Using a distinctive visual language developed over the years, Mirchandani depicts female figures breaking free from built environments and domestic interiors. Translucent and introspective, they instead merge with waterfalls, flora, stones, and tree bark."

"As boundaries between body and landscape blur in these fluid metamorphoses, the entire exhibition becomes a multisensory experience enhanced by Mirchandani's diaphanous silks, sculpted wooden thorns, and subtle aromas. Goes until August 23. My Body Was a River Once Fri, Jan 16, 12pm, Free Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose"

Anoushka Mirchandani draws on the Apsaras—South Asian celestial beings whose name translates to "one who moves flowingly in the waters"—to reimagine mythic female figures as vessels of intergenerational movement. She uses a distinctive visual language to depict female bodies breaking free from built environments and domestic interiors and dissolving into natural elements such as waterfalls, flora, stones, and tree bark. The works present translucent, introspective figures whose boundaries between body and landscape blur in fluid metamorphoses. The exhibition becomes a multisensory experience through diaphanous silks, sculpted wooden thorns, and subtle aromas. The show runs through August 23 with events including My Body Was a River Once on Jan 16 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose.

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