NABI

Nabi is a Delhi-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between digital and material worlds, between the imagined and the ancestral. Rooted in the vernacular traditions of the Global South, his work embodies a holistic approach towards creative expression, one that blurs boundaries between art, craft, and ritual. Drawing from mythologies, oral histories, and pop-cultural symbolism, Nabi constructs hybrid cosmologies where memory and fantasy coexist. His universe becomes a living archive of inherited wisdom and contemporary longing — a site of transformation where the sacred and the synthetic converge. In a time defined by fragmentation, Nabi’s practice reclaims the possibility of wholeness. His works speak of an ascent, not only toward aesthetic synthesis but toward a state of being, where the mythic, the material, and the digital dissolve into one continuum.

 

Working across digital art, embroidery, illustration, and photography, Nabi reconfigures traditional techniques through a contemporary lens. His material language encompasses glass, brass, beads, silver, textiles, ceramics, and crystal, and operates as a form of alchemy, where each element holds spiritual and cultural resonance. Through this tactile devotion, he channels the energies of craft into acts of transcendence, seeking to bridge human experience with something ineffable and cosmic. Nabi has earlier worked with brands such as Florence and The Machine, Sophia the robot, Violet Chachki and Alok Vaid Menon. He has worked with multiple design houses which include Manish Arora in Paris and Ashish in London. In 2021, the artist’s works were exhibited with Super Chief Gallery in Los Angeles, USA and at the Venice Biennale in Italy.