The India Art Fair Facade is created by artist Anshuka Mahapatra and celebrates the ideas of hope, love, life and togetherness. Using poetic phrases in seven regional Indian languages, including Odia, Assamese, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam and English, the artist brings to mind fleeting and evocative moments of beauty from everyday life. The artist, whose practice is rooted in printmaking, was selected to design the fair facade through an open call led in collaboration with the Gujral Foundation and Artdemic.

Anshuka Mahapatra (b. 1997) was born in Odisha, India, completed her BFA in Art Education from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and is currently pursuing master’s in Printmaking from the Department of Fine Arts, SN School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad. Her recent practice has been about engaging and understanding the incorporation of text into image-making process. It is rooted in addressing transregional identity affected by the exploding, shifting environment and conveying her unfixed, evolving selfhood. She has been working across mediums like painting, printmaking, and video installation.