Janhavi Khemka
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Born to a hearing-speaking family in Banaras, Janhavi developed an ear infection at the tender age of 9 months. With the infection compounded by typhoid, she lost her hearing. Her mother taught her to read lips so Janhavi could communicate in a speaking-hearing environment. Janhavi recalls sitting beside her mother, watching her lips move in a mirror placed before them. By the time Janhavi was 15, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, succumbing to the illness before the artist reached 18. Recalling her mother’s impact on her, she navigates the aural through light, touch, experimental sound, and tactile media, something she finds comforting while living in an able-bodied world.
As a cross-disciplinary artist, Janhavi’s dexterity in woodcut printmaking, animation, and experimental vibrational media amalgamates allow her to imprint upon the viewer. Placing viewers directly into a tactile-aural experience, she conjures environmental records through charcoal rubbings and relief prints, allowing them to imagine what it would be like “to see and feel a storm but not hear it”. Janhavi immerses viewers in her fear of being in danger and not being able to sense its arrival, her exhaustion from her dependence on her ‘visual’ faculty, and glimpses of the artist’s desires for intimacy and affection through her video installation.
Khemka received a Master of Fine Arts degree in print media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. She has participated in national and international exhibitions and artist residencies, given lectures, and attended national printmaking conferences, and given workshops. Currently, she got an award Printmaking Today Graduate Award for Winter Issues Magazine in December 2022 from Cello Press Limited, Witney, UK.
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Born to a hearing-speaking family in Banaras, Janhavi developed an ear infection at the tender age of 9 months. With the infection compounded by typhoid, she lost her hearing. Her mother taught her to read lips so Janhavi could communicate in a speaking-hearing environment. Janhavi recalls sitting beside her mother, watching her lips move in a mirror placed before them. By the time Janhavi was 15, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, succumbing to the illness before the artist reached 18. Recalling her mother’s impact on her, she navigates the aural through light, touch, experimental sound, and tactile media, something she finds comforting while living in an able-bodied world.
As a cross-disciplinary artist, Janhavi’s dexterity in woodcut printmaking, animation, and experimental vibrational media amalgamates allow her to imprint upon the viewer. Placing viewers directly into a tactile-aural experience, she conjures environmental records through charcoal rubbings and relief prints, allowing them to imagine what it would be like “to see and feel a storm but not hear it”. Janhavi immerses viewers in her fear of being in danger and not being able to sense its arrival, her exhaustion from her dependence on her ‘visual’ faculty, and glimpses of the artist’s desires for intimacy and affection through her video installation.
Khemka received a Master of Fine Arts degree in print media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. She has participated in national and international exhibitions and artist residencies, given lectures, and attended national printmaking conferences, and given workshops. Currently, she got an award Printmaking Today Graduate Award for Winter Issues Magazine in December 2022 from Cello Press Limited, Witney, UK.
Born to a hearing-speaking family in Banaras, Janhavi developed an ear infection at the tender age of 9 months. With the infection compounded by typhoid, she lost her hearing. Her mother taught her to read lips so Janhavi could communicate in a speaking-hearing environment. Janhavi recalls sitting beside her mother, watching her lips move in a mirror placed before them. By the time Janhavi was 15, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, succumbing to the illness before the artist reached 18. Recalling her mother’s impact on her, she navigates the aural through light, touch, experimental sound, and tactile media, something she finds comforting while living in an able-bodied world.
As a cross-disciplinary artist, Janhavi’s dexterity in woodcut printmaking, animation, and experimental vibrational media amalgamates allow her to imprint upon the viewer. Placing viewers directly into a tactile-aural experience, she conjures environmental records through charcoal rubbings and relief prints, allowing them to imagine what it would be like “to see and feel a storm but not hear it”. Janhavi immerses viewers in her fear of being in danger and not being able to sense its arrival, her exhaustion from her dependence on her ‘visual’ faculty, and glimpses of the artist’s desires for intimacy and affection through her video installation.
Khemka received a Master of Fine Arts degree in print media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. She has participated in national and international exhibitions and artist residencies, given lectures, and attended national printmaking conferences, and given workshops. Currently, she got an award Printmaking Today Graduate Award for Winter Issues Magazine in December 2022 from Cello Press Limited, Witney, UK.
