About
Koshika Yadava is an Immunologist and Artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Her work explores the human experience. Being a scientist and an artist she inhabits worlds perceived to be at odds with each other. She explores this perceived friction in her paintings by poising the observable, the measurable, the rational with the obscure, the intangible and the emotional. Like in the laboratory, experimentation is central to her art practice whether with different media, themes or compositions.
I am happiest when the science and art spheres collide. Within this space, I started this venture, Skala, a fusion of the words; Science in English, and Kala, which means art in Hindi.
The Skala logo embodies my interests in art and science. It shows the Fungus Penicillium, named for its resemblance to a painter’s brush. I chose this Fungus not only for its apt name but also for the story behind the discovery of the life-saving antibiotic Penicillin derived from it. It’s a story of chance, necessity and innovation grounded in compassion and unshackled from profit motives.
