Pinka looking up at and wearing her work, 'Time Out Of (Skeletal) Joint: The Spineless Don’t Protest—Considerations'.
Priyanka D'Souza MFA ‘25
Email: pinkapopsickle@berkeley.edu
Close up of 'Time Out Of (Skeletal) Joint: The Spineless Don’t Protest—Considerations'. Medium: Ink and pencil on paper + Sculpture (stoneware and newspaper wood).
Priyanka D'Souza/ Pinka PopsicKle is a visual artist, writer, and poet from Mumbai, India. In her academic and artistic practice, she works with crip time and protest in ecological reimaginings, Mughal miniatures, early modern natural history, and the concept of the ajai'b (wondrous/strange), particularly in imaginings of borderlands of nation-empires and as applied to anomalous bodies.
She is one half of the artist duo, Resting Museum, with Shreyasi Pathak. Resting Museum uses rest, queerness and disability as methodology in its art practice and curatorial projects to intervene in art and design history discourse and archives. It is interested in the aesthetics of the incomplete and the performativity of the missing body in disability theory and how they can be used in institutional and infrastructural critique. It looks at experiences of isolation of disabled body-minds and the formation of certain ‘publics’ physically and virtually through practices of sitting, resting, and participating together.
Pinka has been a fellow at the Dara Shikoh Fellowship ’16, a Zoeglossia Poet fellow in 2022, an artist resident at the Delfina Foundation, London, in 2021, and has received the FICA Emerging Artist Award ’22.
She lives, works, thinks, and travels through crip time.