Priya Stern

My art practice encompasses a wide range of mixed media; photopolymer prints of images from my family archive are combined with sculptural elements – consisting of yoga props both found and made from plaster to evoke the relationship between yoga, my mum and me – a quiet negotiation of presence, absence, order, and unrest. It is an exploration of how yoga, movement and time holds stories we don’t always speak aloud. How the body can be a site of refuge and battleground; how love and mental health trauma intertwine in ways that resist simple resolution. My practice is deeply personal, created for myself rather than for anyone else. Because of that, I find writing about it difficult—some things are meant to be felt - a way of processing and releasing parts of my childhood.