Shubalakshmi Shekar

Shubalakshmi (Shuba) Shekar is a multidisciplinary artist, food storyteller, creative researcher, and architectural designer working at the intersection of food, memory, and narratives of home. She explores food and home as spatial and cultural practices—shaped and carried across generations. Her work brings food and place into conversation, often situating meals within specific environments such as cafés, homes, and pop-up spaces. Through this, she looks at how context shapes the way food is experienced, remembered, and shared.

Initiated through a research-based café installation and a self-published collaborative recipe book, her work centers on gatherings, pop-ups, dinner experiences, and interactive artistic projects. She is interested in how everyday rituals—rooted in kitchens and domestic spaces—shape experiences of belonging, place, and cultural memory within diasporic and immigrant contexts, and how these are carried forward through food.

She is currently developing annam&friends, a creative research studio exploring food, home, and collective storytelling across communities and cultures. Annam&friends means food and friends.