Janhavi Salvi

About the work

The TAKEAWAY exhibition takes place at Canberra Contemporary from 12 September-24 October 2026 and features works by Marley Dawson, Keg de Souza, Gianna Christella Hayes, Gillian Kayrooz, Zora Pang, Janhavi Salvi, and James Tylor. Presented as part of Canberra Art Biennial 2026, the show is accompanied by a public program at multiple venues across Canberra themed around gastropoetics, food security, and diaspora eating imaginaries. Included in the show is a pop-up reading area by Magenta House featuring publications and ephemera that serve as ‘side-dishes’ to the themes explored by the participants of this project. Ultimately, TAKEAWAY takes a regenerative approach into why and how we eat, while digesting fraught histories and ecologies of land, water and labour.

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About the artist

Janhavi Salvi is an Indian Artist working within the Visual and Media Arts, based in Canberra, Australia. Her practice is driven by the aim to make artworks that move away from the ‘please do not touch’ conditioning to a more liberal form of engagement that encourages touching and tampering with the work, or positioning even the most basic emotional response (even that of a chuckle) as a gesture of co-authorship. She has exhibited her work at Tributary Projects (ACT) and photo access (ACT) as a recipient of the Dark Matter Residency opportunity. Janhavi is an emerging arts leader in the ACT, developing programs for Tributary Projects, You Are Here and University of Canberra Creativity and Culture Seminar Series.