'Landscapes of Longing'
Anoushka Mirchandani
UTA Artist Space
Directed by Anoushka Mirchandani, Alisha Tejpal, and Mireya Martinez, 'Landscapes of Longing' is an abstract short film that reflects on an excavation of identity, migration, and generational womanhood.
It premiered at Mirchandani's first solo presentation in Los Angeles titled 'I Resemble Everyone But Myself' at UTA Artist Space from April 14 to May 13, 2023.
Film Crew: Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani, Shivangini Tandon, Aiden Reynolds, Wesley Knapp, Charlie M. Kaufman, and Shreya Ajmani.
Landscapes of Longing, Film views at UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles
About
Anoushka Mirchandani (b. 1988, Pune, IN) is an Indian-born, San Francisco-based artist. Mirchandani’s practice examines her experience as an Indian, Immigrant, Other, Woman. Her work probes ancestry, personal history, cultural and sociopolitical environments through a diasporic lens, exploring the micro-tensions and identity transformations that are part and parcel of code-switching and assimilation in a foreign land.
Her solo shows include Rhodes Contemporary Art, London (2021) and Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco (2020).
Mirchandani’s group shows include Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, curated by Amoako Boafo and Larry Ossei-Mensah (2022); Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco (2021); Legion Projects, Healdsburg (2021); Knowhere Art Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, New York (2021); Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco (2020); California’s State Senator – Scott Wiener’s public offices, San Francisco (2019); Root Division, San Francisco (2019); Arc Gallery, San Francisco (2017-18).
As of May 2022, she was awarded the San Francisco Artist Grant (SFA) by the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has participated in multiple residencies including The Wassaic Project, Silver Arts Projects’ Digital Residency, Global Coralition, KYTA and Aegean Idea Lab.
Mirchandani recently made her debut with Yossi Milo Gallery at The Armory Show in New York (2022) and Untitled Art in Miami (2022).