Split and Return, 2025

Solo show by Tara Peckham at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi.

Artist Statement

Born to an American father and Indian mother, and raised in Indonesia, Tara Peckham’s multi-layered cultural identity deeply informs the fluidity with which she moves through her life and her work. As such, the artist blurs the lines between the self and the other, finding home in a state of having departed, but not yet having arrived. This flux – between static states – blending reality and fantasy, structure and play, sensuality and intimacy, sensory memories and dreams transforms her practice into an act of self-analysis and meditation. The journey embodied in leaving and returning, deconstructing and reconstructing, reflecting and contradicting are a constant thread through the evolution of each work. 

Self-taught, Tara relies on experimentation and atavistic curiosity to find expression across several mediums from graphite to textiles, metal work to zines, and a myriad of junctures in between. “I am drawn to the exploration of the self as universal. For me, the essence of love is to see oneself in everything, and not see a separate self at all. My work is an attempt to express this feeling. In capturing nuggets of nostalgia, I experience a blurring between the self and the other.” 

In this show, Tara has combined a variety of organic materials to cultivate a small garden made up of intimate moments. Each piece weaves together themes of community, childhood, domesticity, and rites of passage. Split and Return, is an ode to the textures of growing up and remembering.