Aparna is a performance artist based in Chennai, India. Her work responds to the societal pressures placed on women, particularly within South Asian contexts, exploring themes of autonomy, identity, and cultural expectation. She confronts the tension between personal agency and inherited narratives.
She works across performance, photography, and video, drawing from her cultural heritage and global experiences to reflect on how the body becomes a site of negotiation—between duty and desire, silence and expression.
In 2024, Aparna showcased her work at the MAXXI Museum in Rome as part of RUFA University’s Summer Lab – Performing Rome, followed by the Posthuman – Body, Ecology and Technology Festival in Odisha and Body Furia Festival in Barcelona. In 2025, she was part of a performance festival with the Possible Futures Collective at the Hyderabad Literary Festival and participated in Arcane Portals, an intensive co-creation with Vest&Page, presented as part of Future Ritual: CEREMONY. Aparna holds a BA in Visual Arts from Stella Maris College, Chennai, and an MA in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art, London. Her practice continues to evolve through workshops and collaborative projects that examine the friction between tradition and agency, personal narrative and collective expectation.
