Pulp Society is delighted to present Palak Modi’s solo exhibition, 404: SELF NOT FOUND opening on Sunday, 1st February, 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.
Palak Modi:
Palak Modi is a visual artist with a background in Psychology. The artist brings a nuanced understanding of trauma, memory, and transformation to her deeply introspective visual language. Her artistic process is shaped by personal experiences, which she views as a passage through death and rebirth, a philosophy that forms the core of her work.
She has exhibited extensively, including solo shows at Gallerie Romain Rollande and Bikaner House (New Delhi), participation in the International Contemporary Art Fair (Spain), and group shows at Dhoomimal Gallery (New Delhi) and Abir India (Ahmedabad).
Her works are also available on Terrain.art, a global platform for South Asian contemporary art, and she has been featured in Artsy, Abirspace, Abir Pothi, and Artsper. She has also collaborated with the luxury design label Neytt by Extraweave to create a line of handcrafted art rugs, blending her artistic vision with functionality.
The artist works, and lives in New Delhi.
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