Nivedita Madigubba (she/her) was born and raised in India and is an interdisciplinary artist currently working from the unceded Muwekma Ohlone land. She sees materials as archives of embedded stories that shape collective memory.

In her current works, language itself becomes a material. Her practice is guided by her childhood memory of learning English in school and repeating a word as an imposition. She is interested in acts of learning and the material associated with them, including popular cinema, books across genres such as history, novels, philosophy, and mythology. As she learns to read literature written in Telugu through their English translation, she often poses questions such as: What is (un)learned, fragmented and forgotten? These questions seep into her art practice to counter dominant memories and to visualize narratives that are non-binary, entangled, multiple and shapeshifting.