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Natasha Sharma
Natasha is an artist-researcher in urban practice based in Mumbai, India. Her practice weaves together artistic research, visual arts, placemaking and play, primarily unfolding in public spaces. Her projects illustrate the role of arts and culture as a crucial scaffolding to urban development. Through artistic-community engagements, she creates interventions of pause and play, activation and restoration, belonging and agency between people and place, that she finds to be rather lost in the current ways of urban-making.
She is deeply passionate about youth and women rights, reclaiming public commons, and building forums for participation and free expressions. Not limited by form or medium, her interventions spans from making a film (Gutter Ki Macchli - Fish in the Sewer) on local vocabulary to climate change, creating learning environments in metro stations (The Wait Time Project), site-specific interventions in public parks (Library of Mats), installations embodying softness (1 by one) and recently, designing a community library (Kitaab Mahal) with one of the most marginalized neighbourhood in the east of Mumbai, Govandi
She is the co-founder of Govandi Arts Festival - a community-led arts and culture festival that reclaims and transforms the socio-spatial narrative and infrastructure of Govandi– a ghettoized neighbourhood in Mumbai. At Community Design Agency, she leads the art and design program and integrates her independent practice to collaborate closely with diverse communities, addressing their social and spatial challenges through arts, design, fundraising, and community engagement initiatives. In recent times, she has won the Arts4Resilience - Knowledge Into Use award (Sweden, 2023) and Reclaim Art Award (Germany, 2021).
Email: mail@natashasharma.co
Instagram: fliesinmycurry
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