Kirti Virmani is a multi-disciplinary artist working across photography, printmaking and ceramics. Guided by feminist principles, her practice turns a sharp gaze on architectural space and institutional power. Single Image Winner, Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5 (British Journal of Photography).
Artist statement
I am an Indian-born visual artist based between London and India, working across photography, printmaking, and sculptural forms.
My interdisciplinary practice centres around ideas of rebellion within and hope. What I observe through my photographic lens becomes the source material for what I construct and destruct through my print and sculpture practice to navigate, and reconfigure the existing gender narratives that we finds ourselves in.
My recent body of work is about an ongoing interest in observing architectural sites and archaeological remnants through a feminist lens to make visible the invisible perspectives that have been normalised. I use architectural forms as specific metaphors, reimagining them as visual and building thresholds to question how architecture mediates access, gaze, and power.
I am interested in unlayering the physical and emotional veils that have come to cloak feminine existence. Through my making process, I seek to unmake these layers, to unwrap and release essence, allowing it to surface and breathe. My practice reflects on the weight of the self and the weight we carry collectively, navigating the tensions between intimacy, inheritance, and shared histories.
I holds a Master’s in Print from the Royal College of Art and have exhibited my works in both the UK and India.
