Bharti Kher’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring identity as fluid, multiple, and constantly transforming. Her works often merge human, animal, and material forms, creating hybrids that move between abstraction and figuration while drawing on myth, symbolism, and cultural memory.
Sculpture lies at the center of her practice. Using found objects such as wooden wheels, architectural fragments, mannequin casts, and domestic materials, Kher creates precarious assemblages that appear balanced between collapse and renewal. These charged compositions invite viewers to reconsider the histories and meanings embedded in everyday things.
Her use of found materials reflects a life shaped by multiple cultural and geographic contexts, opening dialogue between the physical and metaphysical.
A defining element of Kher’s work is the bindi, which she has used since 1995. Rather than as ornament, she employs it as a medium with layered symbolic meaning. Traditionally associated with the “third eye,” the bindi becomes in her practice a bridge between surface and spirituality, ornament and consciousness.