Nehal Agarwal

Nehal is an artist whose practice explores the instability of meaning and the ways in which interpretation shifts across time, context and perspective. Through the processes of layering, repetition, fragmentation and transformation, her work investigates how perception is constructed through what is revealed, obscured, altered or left unresolved. Rather than presenting meaning as something fixed, her practice creates spaces where understanding remains open, provisional and continuously negotiated.

Working primarily with watercolour, text and layered surfaces, Nehal is interested in how materials themselves can embody uncertainty. She allows the natural behaviour of pigment, absorption, erasure and accumulation to play an active role in shaping the image, creating works that move between recognition and abstraction. This process-led approach reflects her broader conceptual interest in how meaning emerges gradually, often through partial encounters, fragments and traces rather than through complete or stable forms.

Drawing from personal observation as well as historical and cultural references, Nehal's work often uses natural forms, particularly flowers, as a site through which shifting meanings can be explored. By magnifying, isolating and reconfiguring these forms, she challenges familiar ways of seeing and invites viewers to reconsider how recognition is formed. Text is often incorporated as a parallel layer of interpretation, functioning not as explanation but as an unstable element that complicates and extends the reading of the image.