Maithili Rajput: Interdisciplinary Artist

Maithili Rajput is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. Through labor-intensive processes and intimate gestures, her practice explores endurance, resistance, and the boundaries—both physical and psychological—that shape our lived experiences. Reinterpreting everyday objects and bodies, Rajput reveals the tensions and dangers embedded in the mundane. Materials like steel, wood, and personal artifacts from her upbringing become vessels for examining how strength and vulnerability coexist. Often concealing or embedding her body within these materials and environments, she implicates the viewer in moments of discomfort—where fragility becomes a source of power. Her work constructs spaces where the familiar and the unsettling collide. Through cryptic, alluring arrangements, she challenges perceptions of belonging, displacement, and intimacy, questioning who is permitted to exist freely in space and who must resist to remain visible. “In my work, endurance is neither victory nor loss, but simply existence.” This understanding of endurance grounds her practice as an ongoing negotiation with cultural, social, and bodily limits.