Parnika Mittal

Parnika Mittal’s paintings emerge from sketches, fragments and emotional notations made in the margins of her journals, often beginning in moments where language feels insufficient. Shaped by experiences of living across cities, countries and temporary homes, Parnika Mittal’s work reflects the residue of movement: fleeting intimacies, emotional dislocation, cultural crossings and the instability of shifting identity. Her faceless figures are not portraits in a literal sense, but vessels for uncertainty, longing, grief and the search for belonging.

For Parnika Mittal, home is not a fixed place but a fluid, emotional landscape. Through layered surfaces, fractured compositions and abstract forms, she explores the ways memory can both shape and unsettle the self. Parnika Mittal’s paintings hold what cannot always be clearly named — the colour of memory, the shape of goodbye, and the lingering texture of what remains after loss.