Rithika’s work draws from the personal, mythological and scientific to navigate the liminal or inconspicuous spaces within our contemporary cultural and technological entanglements. Foregrounding issues around hybridity, displacement, futurity, and femininity, her narrative worlds become sacred spaces holding events where boundaries are transgressed and mystical transformations are imminent. Her imagined worlds propose alternative realities and desirable futures, occupied by significant, elaborately dressed & sensitive bodies as well as other sentient beings that share a profoundly embodied relationship with each other and the space around them. Rithika’s work focuses on the nature of companionship and the possibilities of imagining a future that goes beyond apocalypse as an endpoint, where ancestral and internalised anxieties can be unpacked to give way to softer, integrated and symbolic ways of being.