2026

Tarushi Agarwal

I’m Tarushi, a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in London, working across moving image, editorial design, photography, and creative direction. My practice navigates the space between analogue tactility and digital image-making, creating work that often blurs the line between personal archive and constructed narrative.

I’m drawn to the emotional architecture that exists within memory, identity, and displacement, exploring the ways feeling becomes embedded within objects, spaces, and inherited rituals.

नीलम (Neelam)

“When I close my eyes, I see blue”

नीलम (Neelam) is an experimental cyanotype film inspired by the poem, Ghazal (6) by Ishrat Afreen and shaped through personal memory, feminine inheritance, and material process. Combining archival family photographs, filmed footage of my mother and grandmother, landscape imagery, and over 800 hand-produced cyanotype frames, the work explores memory as something atmospheric rather than fixed.

The film centres around the colour blue, both through the cyanotype process and through the name Neelam, which belongs to my grandmother and translates directly as blue. Throughout the project, blue became more than an aesthetic decision and instead evolved into a way of visualising memory, intimacy, and emotional presence.

Rather than illustrating the poem literally, Neelam attempts to translate its emotional atmosphere into moving image through colour, rhythm, texture, and slowness, where images begin to feel less like documentation and more like lingering impressions.

1 minute 27 seconds
857 frames

Resha Magazine

Issue 1 – Within The Folds

Clothing has always held more than its surface. It carries memory, autonomy, and the ways we choose to be seen.

Within The Folds is the first issue of Resha, a proposed biannual contemporary magazine. The issue centres around four participants whose relationships with clothing reveal how garments mediate identity, belonging, and memory. Through intimate interviews and photography, wardrobe rituals are translated into visual and textual narrative.

Self-initiated art direction, photography, interviews, and written content.

18x25cm, 70 pages, perfect bound.

the bed

The bed occupies a strange position within everyday life; deeply familiar and intimate, yet often overlooked. Associated with rest, privacy, vulnerability, and routine, it functions both as a physical object and as a space shaped through memory, repetition, and emotional experience.

Using historical illustrations, sketches, and paintings sourced from museum archives, this publication explores how the bed has been imagined, represented, and emotionally inhabited over time. Moving between isolated bed structures, domestic interiors, literary excerpts, and personal observational drawings, the project reflects on the relationship between the image of the bed and the experience of living within one.

15x20 cm, 152 pages.

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