Photo of Nivedita Madigubba, multiple exposure
Nivedita Madigubba, MFA ‘24
Email: nivedita_madigubba@berkeley.edu
Website: https://mnivedita.com/
Nivedita is curious about the collision of different knowledge systems brought on by colonization and the social, economical, and political forms they take today. Her practice engages with products of cultural processes – found images, ritual vessels, the sound of words, architecture, etc. – as materials that embody memories to reframe them and visualize counternarratives.
She is a student of philosophy (Vedanta), a trained Bharatnātyam dancer, and has been part of several group and solo performances in India. She holds a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and has been awarded the Barbara McKee Memorial Scholarship, The Leap Prize, and recognition of Academic Achievement. Her works were exhibited in shows titled Empty Set, Poetry as Critical Form, INDIVIDUAL, and a curatorial project titled Corporeal Prison.
Working in collaboration with artists extended her attention to mechanisms of tangible and intangible borders. She is a member of a collective of transnational artists—We da Pepo. As a collective, We da Pepo foregrounds the complex and contradictory experiences of living in the United States of America as immigrants.
“This Language (we) speak. These Borders (we) draw,” 2018
Audio Garden at the Laundry Gallery, San Francisco. Photo by Giuliana Funkhouser.