Saturated Soundscapes with Ashna Malik
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Overview
Gallery XXL is pleased to host a listening session titled Saturated Soundscapes with Ashna Malik, a participating artist in the ongoing exhibition Bending and Breaking presenting the works of AIKO, Anikesa Dhing, Ashna Malik, Avinash Kumar, Bhushan Bhombale, Khatra, Nabi and Sadhna Prasad.
The exhibition inquires into bending realities and breaking materials as forms to initiate play and resist the linear narratives of growth as well as efficiency that often define contemporary urban life.
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2026
Time: 7pm onwards
Venue: Gallery XXL, A-277, Second Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi
Time: 7pm onwards
Venue: Gallery XXL, A-277, Second Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi
About Ashna Malik
Ashna Malik is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2020 with a BFA. Her academic pursuits combined a minor in dance with a major in visual arts. This background is evident in her practice, where she introduces elements of movement onto flat surfaces. She prompts the audience to view her work from various perspectives, leading to the realization of a distorted image that fundamentally questions perception and understanding.
Through paintings, interactive projections, and laser cut wall sculptures, Ashna’s body of work features compositions built from intricate, layered patterns. Ashna uses these patterns and illusions to symbolize the complicated, often tangled structures and webs of thoughts, emotions, and experiences that characterize daily life. The compositions stem from a desire to challenge the viewer's perception, encouraging active engagement with the visual experience. Through the Distort series, she aims to compel viewers to broaden their perspectives, inviting them to question not only what they see but also how they interpret and experience the world around them.
Through paintings, interactive projections, and laser cut wall sculptures, Ashna’s body of work features compositions built from intricate, layered patterns. Ashna uses these patterns and illusions to symbolize the complicated, often tangled structures and webs of thoughts, emotions, and experiences that characterize daily life. The compositions stem from a desire to challenge the viewer's perception, encouraging active engagement with the visual experience. Through the Distort series, she aims to compel viewers to broaden their perspectives, inviting them to question not only what they see but also how they interpret and experience the world around them.
As a rising name in India's electronic music space, Ashna carries her creative vision into sound, shaping sets that are immersive, euphoric and unpredictable. Her music often moves between leftfield sounds like trance, techno and acid house, balancing intensity and subtlety.
Her performances carry a distinct euphoric energy that resonates deeply with the crowd. She has played at festivals like Magnetic Fields, DGTL, and Maushi Day, and has also taken her sound to international stages in Bangkok, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Her performances carry a distinct euphoric energy that resonates deeply with the crowd. She has played at festivals like Magnetic Fields, DGTL, and Maushi Day, and has also taken her sound to international stages in Bangkok, Nepal and Sri Lanka.