Sangam Peshawaria
My practice in graphite and charcoal investigates how identity is shaped by memory, perception and inherited ways of seeing.
Practice
Working through the human figure, I explore states of visibility, concealment, vulnerability and connection. Faces, gestures, veils, reflections and fragmented bodies become recurring visual devices, not as representations of individuals, but as carriers of psychological and collective experience.
Graphite allows me to construct images through accumulation, erasure and minute shifts of tone, while charcoal introduces rupture, atmosphere and instability. I use both mediums to disrupt the certainty of the observed figure, allowing forms to emerge, dissolve and remain unresolved.
Observation is my starting point, not my destination. I deliberately fragment, obscure and withhold information, using negative space, repetition, distortion and unfinished passages to create tension between presence and absence.
My work asks the viewer to move beyond recognition and consider what remains unseen: memory, silence, inherited beliefs and the spaces between individual and collective identity.