Born in Kakkodi, Kozhikode, Nandana Amba is a visual artist whose practice explores the layered meanings of domestic space. Working across various mediums including watercolour, gouache on paper and ceramic, she reimagines residential structures with a surreal sensibility. Her compositions at times recall the tiny houses along mountain ranges, yet they are transformed through her vision into geometrical spaces that oscillate between the real and the imagined.
Her work is marked by the perspective she adopts. Instead of portraying the home from within, she often views it from outside, not merely as a silent observer but as part of the intimate, ordinary rhythms of life and the place itself. This position creates a subtle tension, allowing viewers to experience the home both as insiders and outsiders, evoking memories of lived spaces while prompting a rethinking of the borders that define them. In Inside the Zone, aerial views of dwellings explore home as a space of comfort, belonging, and transition. It is where innocence gives way to experience, and where ordinary life becomes a record of memory, growth, and transformation. A graduate of the Government College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, Nandana is currently pursuing her first year of MVA in Painting and Expanded Media at the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad. Her practice underscores how the domestic can be simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary, fixed and shifting, personal and collective.