Viraj Khanna, from a Kolkata fashion family, employs embroidery to examine consumer culture, his bold designs questioning how we present ourselves in a media-saturated world.
Viraj Khanna’s acylics explore the construction of identity in contemporary society, using distortion, scale, and fragmentation to examine how the self is performed and perceived. Figures often appear oversized, masked, or reconfigured, reflecting societal pressures, inherited ideologies, and the tension between private experience and public display. Layered textures, stitching, and painterly interventions transform memory and everyday imagery into dream-like compositions, questioning the boundaries between lived reality and curated façades.