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Banita Mistry is a London-based artist working across painting and jewellery. Her practice examines how attention is produced and controlled under contemporary conditions, and how systems of visibility shape value and time.

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Trained originally as a jeweller, Mistry approaches mark-making through rule-based processes. Much of her current work uses henna (a plant-based dye traditionally associated with the body) which she applies through repetitive, automatic gestures. The slow accumulation of marks allows time to register directly within the surface of the work.

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Her compositions often begin with simple instructions or constraints, drawing on binaries, serial repetition and algorithmic logic. Influenced by computational structures such as the infinite scroll, Mistry treats systems and procedures as material in themselves, allowing outcomes to emerge through the execution of a rule.

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Across drawing, jewellery and image-based work, her practice explores how attention or memory can be structured, withheld and redirected. Through repetition, limitation and seriality, Mistry examines the mechanics that determine what is seen, what circulates and what disappears.