Akshita
Gandhi

Akshita Gandhi is a multi-media artist based in Mumbai. By merging social, historical, and mythological concepts her work concentrates on breaking out of stereotypical gender roles, grappling with the history of colonialism, and self-empowerment. Her body immersive installations include Le cirque de la liberté (2020), a mise-en-scene inspired by the circus and Dare to Break Free (2020), a commission by the Berlin-based music festival Kater Blau. In the mixed media painting, light box, and poetry series Freedom, I Read Banned Books (2019-) she advocates breaking free from patriarchal structures. Using light as a guiding principle Gandhi’s work speaks to the transformative power of artistic practice.

Private Collections include Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. Gandhi has collaborated with Frank DeBourge during New York Fashion Week and the Indian menswear brand Kurtees, in addition, she her work is exhibited extensively at galleries and art fairs internationally.