HANSA SETHI

ARTIST BIO

Hansa Sethi is a self-taught psychological visual artist from India, currently based in India. Her practice explores mental and emotional states through lived experience. Working through abstraction, she articulates non-verbal conditions such as depression, emotional numbness, and psychological rupture using dense palettes, repetitive structures, and layered surfaces. Her work is shaped by prolonged encounters with mental health challenges. What is often perceived as decorative functions instead as a visual language of mental stasis—registering internal states rather than stylistic intention. Sethi continues to develop her practice within international contemporary art contexts, focusing on psychological experience, survival, and recovery.


ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a psychological artist exploring mental and emotional states through lived experience. Shaped by prolonged encounters with depression, numbness, and inner collapse, my work translates non-verbal psychological conditions into dense, repetitive visual structures. What is often considered decorative—the recurring palettes, spirals, and gestures—is not a stylistic choice but evidence of mental stasis: visual traces of a consciousness immobilized while the external world continues. These repetitions function as mechanisms of defense and survival rather than ornament. Painting began as a necessity during a period of psychological rupture. Over time, the act of making became a way of re-entering sensation, allowing the work to move from containment toward reflection and recovery. My practice remains an ongoing inquiry into mental health, emotional fracture, and psychological return.

The work does not explain experience; it records it.