Permi Jhooti

Throughout my sporting life, all people asked -

What’s it like to be a woman, what’s it like to be Indian?
Meaningless questions when all I cared for was what it felt to play football.
In my work, I strip gender, age, race from my subjects.
I capture what remains when one dances, plays, moves, just is.
And from this I create my art.
And no-one ever asks if the dancer, the fighter, whomever in my print, is a woman, or Indian, or anything really.
Because that was never the point.

Permi Jhooti
Motive Emotive

motive – A reason for doing something.
emotive – arousing or able to arouse intense feeling.

Motive Emotive, these two words sum up my life. But I was never asked about this when discussing my football or my work. Somehow, being Indian or a woman, an outsider or a minority was deemed more important a discussion point. And yet, this missed the point of my being completely, no matter how much influence being these things may have had on my life.
I started my journey away from a Science career which had given me conventional success because it lacked the feelings I had gotten from my sport, that pure 100% feeling of being so engaged in something that nothing else exists. I had never believed I had it in me to be ...

PhD, “Respiratory Motion Compensation Techniques: Development and Implications for Cardiac MR”.
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine | Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. 1993-2002

MEng, First Class Honours, Software Engineering Degree
Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK.
‘A’ Levels: Maths (Pure & Applied) – A, Computer Science – A, Psychology – B
Preston College, Preston. 1987-1989

2017 BAC, Art Basel
2016, SWAB, Barcelona
2016, SCOPE, Art Basel
2016, Armory, New York
2015, SCOPE, Art Basel, MIAMI
2015, SCOPE, Art Basel
2015, Köln Liste, Köln