Hi, I’m Nandi
Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist, creative director, photographer, stylist, and founder of Planet Euphoria, an independent publication exploring art, culture, identity, and self-expression. Her creative practice is rooted in fashion, photography, popular culture, music, and the visual experiences that have shaped her since childhood. Through playful and experimental work, Nandi creates visual worlds that blend nostalgia, personal experience, and contemporary culture. Her work reflects an ongoing interest in how the things we consume and experience become part of our identity and influence the way we create.For Art N Jazz, Nandi will present Channel Surfing, a multimedia installation inspired by the images, characters, music, films, and cultural moments that have shaped her creative perspective. The installation transforms elements of her personal collection and home environment into an intimate portrait of the artist, exploring how the things we consume, remember, and experience become part of who we are and what we create.
Installation Concept: Channel Surfing (In my Mind)
Channel Surfing is a multimedia installation exploring the images, characters, music, films, art, and cultural moments that have shaped my imagination, identity, and creative practice.
The installation recreates a personal collector shelf from my home, bringing my private visual world into a public space. Three vintage televisions form the centerpiece: two screens play parallel versions of a three-act video narrative, while a smaller screen identifies each act.
Act I — Formation explores childhood and the cartoons, television, commercials, films, and other imagery that first shaped my imagination. Act II — Consciousness moves into culture, identity, art, individuality, ambition, and the lessons I've absorbed from the media and people who influenced me. Act III — Becoming becomes more personal, bringing together moments I experienced firsthand, artists and performances that moved me, characters I recognize parts of myself in, and moments that reflect growth, conflict, inspiration, and self-discovery.
The two main screens use different sequences and channel transitions throughout the first two acts before converging in Act III, creating the feeling of two versions of the same mind eventually arriving at the same place.
The surrounding shelf contains my artwork, photographs, books, collectibles, and personal objects, connecting the physical things I keep with the images and memories that live in my head. Together, the video and environment create a portrait of what I consume, what stays with me, and what I create from it.
