During her residency at Khoj, Luisa will focus on how ritual, repetition, and embodied practices shape responses to pain, grief, and renewal. Rather than working through representation, she will attend to how life in New Delhi, its thresholds, encounters, and daily rhythms, register affectively and subtly reshape her art-making process.

Engaging with Khoj’s focus on mental health and healing, Hansal approaches her practice as a form of internal myth-making, engaging in a wordless discussion where colour, form, repetition, and gesture become tools for processing interior and inherited emotional states. Ritual is understood not as symbolism to be translated, but as a lived structure that offers containment, endurance, and moments of agency in the face of vulnerability.

Working slowly and intuitively through painting and sculpture, the residency will support the development of new works that hold perceptivity and care, reflecting on how pain is carried personally and collectively, and how creative labour can function as a quiet, reparative act.

This residency is part of Cross-Hatchings, a collaborative initiative between PICA and Khoj. The program provides opportunities to explore new cultural contexts, foster global connections and present innovative projects to diverse audiences worldwide.