PALAK MODI | 404: SELF NOT FOUND

Pulp Society is delighted to present 404: SELF NOT FOUND, a solo by Palak Modi. The exhibition is on view at B-247, Okhla Phase 1 in New Delhi from 1 February through 20 March, 2026. 

The exhibition reflects on how personal agency is challenged in an age of prediction and automation, and how selfhood becomes something constantly negotiated within and against technology. 

In her practice, the artist explores what happens when our minds become overloaded by constant digital input. She looks at how we rely on screens, algorithms, and online systems to remember, decide, and make sense of things, often causing small “glitches” in memory, attention, and understanding. While technology is designed to make life easier, it also quietly changes the way we think and feel every day.

Earlier in her career, the artist focused on themes of impermanence through the physical disintegration and renewal of materials. In recent years, this inquiry has shifted into the digital realm. Her work now brings these two threads together, tracing how the self is continually reshaped as we move between our physical and virtual lives.

She also examines how the digital world reduces complex human experience into simple data points. As identities become filtered and measured through digital systems, we begin to see ourselves through the logic of algorithms, seeking validation, adapting our behaviour, and negotiating our sense of worth in response to external feedback.

Visually, her works combine repeated patterns, grid like structures, and code inspired forms with organic, hand worked gestures. The recurring stitched “plus” signs reference digital interfaces and acts of online connection, while also suggesting repair, care, and the human effort to regain balance in an overstimulated world.