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Sarah Kaushik

The image displays a portrait of a person with short, dark, curly hair, a nose ring, and gold earrings. They are wearing a light green, collared, button-up shirt and are standing in front of a dark green wooden wall with horizontal slats.

Sarah Kaushik is a Netherlands-based visual artist with Indian roots, whose work reimagines vintage imagery into surreal “worlds” that blur humor, critique and dream. Using found photographs and pop-cultural fragments, she probes the absurdities of modern life with her collages, while also celebrating the strangeness of memory and imagination. Her work invites viewers to look closer—and be looked at in return.

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A surreal collage shows a large vintage typewriter on rolling green hills with a sheet reading “ASK GOOD QUESTIONS,” while a headless figure with a cylindrical mechanical eye for a head holds a lit lantern over the paper, a tiny suited man on a spiky spherical plant peers through a long telescope toward the scene, and a large orange sun hangs in the pastel sky.
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Collage of two smiling vintage figures on rocks in front of a farmhouse and snowy mountain, framed by oversized hands and tall yellow flowers; a salmon banner at top reads “GIVE OUT LOVE.”
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Collage of a person at a vintage sewing machine with flowing white fabric carrying a tiny walker, cotton plants, scissors, and the text “Take MINDFUL ACTION.”
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Collage of a yellow VW van floating above green fields with a sheep standing on its roof, cows, chickens, a pig, a moonlit sky, a blue butterfly, a sign reading ‘FARM SANCTUARY’ and a small label 'DO NO HARM’.
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