In a deeply personal inquiry, Will this entanglement ever resolve? unveils Natasha Sachdeva’s layered engagement with the realities of growing up and living within a middle-class family in New Delhi, India. What begins as an inward process of self-discovery and introspection gradually expands into a broader commentary on the ways in which society defines, regulates, and confines women’s bodies—situated within a South Asian context, yet resonant on a universal scale. Her figures—often voluminous, unposed, distorted, and unapologetically raw—challenge conventional ideals of beauty and grace, dismantling ingrained expectations of restraint, decorum, and conformity. Through these forms, the artist asserts an unequivocal right to joy, sensuality, and self-expression at every stage of a woman’s life.

As the works question tradition, expectation, and autonomy, they also probe the cultural codes that shape gendered experience. Natasha situates her practice within a collective framework, drawing inspiration from mothers, friends, and fellow artists whose everyday negotiations of identity, agency, and belonging mirror and amplify her own.

Natasha Sachdeva (b. 1993, New Delhi) holds a BFA (2015) and an MFA (2017) from Amity University, Noida. She has participated in key workshops, including the Kochi Biennale Foundation’s Masters Studio Practice (2018) and Lalit Kala Akademi’s Women’s Day Camp (2021). Her work has been exhibited consistently in India, including at the Abir First Take Awards Exhibition (2022), Bikaner House, New Delhi, The Inner Self: Portraits in Multiple Mediums (2022), On The Threshold of Time: Unseen (2020), NADA Miami 2025 (USA), and the India Art Fair (2023, 2025) with Art Heritage, New Delhi. She has received several honours, such as the Abir First Take Award (2022), Delhi State Award for Painting (2018), and the Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship (2020–2021). In 2021, she was selected by the French Institute in India to present her work at La Nuit des Idées (Theme: Space and Time) and was featured in Harper’s Bazaar India Art Issue (2022) as a notable emerging artist.

My journey as an artist began with a small series of paintings in 2018 that gave me a sense of liberation and contentment as I dealt with a difficult and unpleasant relationship with my own body that began with a sudden weight gain caused by Polycystic Ovarian Disorder. All these years later, my practice has grown and is rooted in an ongoing exploration of the female body, limited not just to its physicality, but also to the numerous layers that lie beneath the surface—emotional states, public perception, notions of ‘beauty’ and ‘grace,’ and societal expectations. It is a form of self-discovery, a means to examine different life stages — growing older, transitioning from being single to being married and now divorced — and an opportunity to examine what other women go through in a middle class, South Asian context. Turning a gaze upon myself and the immediate society requires a level of honesty and risk-taking that often translates to a rawness in the visuals I make. I feel a sense of empowerment when people walk away from my work with a feeling of ‘being seen,’ ‘accepted,’ and ‘confident’.