Rajyashree Goody

Rajyashree Goody completed her B.A. in sociology at Fugerso college in Pune in 2011, and an M.A. in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester UK in 2013.  Using different mediums like writing, ceramics, photography, video and sculptural works made with found objects and food items she tries to unravel the examples of power and resistance within  Dalit communities in India. At present she is developing a series of work that revolves around the narratives of food, eating and hunger in Dalti experience and its relationship with the act of writing and photo documentation.

In December 2018, she was awarded the Emerging Artist Award by India Today. Her recent residencies took place at Art Omi, Ghent, 2019; Shifting Studios at TIFA Working Studios, 2019; ISCP, New York, 2018; Khoj International, New Delhi, 2017; Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2017; Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju, 2016; Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, 2015; and Khoj Refracting Rooms at Tifa, Pune, 2015. In early 2018 she completed a visiting artist fellowship at Harvard University, Cambridge, where she was exploring complexities, parallels, and the significance of foodways in race and caste narratives.

For Pulp Society, she will make a new series of sculptures from her Manusmriti Sculpture series, where she pulp pages of the Manusmriti text to create sculptural works that lend new meaning to this divisive text.