Annu Yadav was raised in a conservative Rajasthani family — a world where a daughter’s path was already written. Her mother dreamed of something else: freedom for her daughters. That liberation is now what Annu paints.On this episode of States of Creation, she speaks about the goddesses born from her own mythology — figures of strength, grief, and desire. A conversation about the gaze, and taking power back from it. About art as escape, and art as presence. About the pleasure of making, and the calm it brings. And about the contradictions of being a modern, liberated woman.Because contradiction is central to Annu’s work — freedom and expectation, love and violence, East and West, the masculine and the feminine. Rather than resolving these tensions, she turns them into sites of creation.

A glimpse into our conversation with Annu Yadav in the upcoming second episode of States of Creation.

A candid behind-the-scenes moment from the making of Episode 1.

On the first episode of States of Creation, Dina Nur Satti speaks on clay, ancestral knowledge, and the more-than-human world. A meditative conversation on spirituality, memory, and what it means to create in dialogue with the unseen.

A glimpse into our conversation with Dina Nur Satti in the upcoming first episode of States of Creation — a cinematic exploration of spirituality, ritual, and artistic practice.

Extract from the first episode of States of Creation: Dina Nur Satti speaks on clay, ancestral knowledge, and the more-than-human world. A meditative conversation on spirituality, memory, and what it means to create in dialogue with the unseen.