{"id":611,"date":"2017-12-13T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T08:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyadava.net\/new\/index.php\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:01:04","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skala-art.net\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0471-2-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1287 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0471-2-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0471-2-895x1024.jpg 895w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0471-2-768x878.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0471-2-1343x1536.jpg 1343w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_0471-2-1791x2048.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Koshika Yadava is an Immunologist and Artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Her work explores the human experience. As 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 juxtaposing the observable, the measurable, and 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-black-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\"><blockquote><p><br>I am at home where the science and art spheres collide. I call this space, Skala, a fusion of the words; Science in English, and Kala, which means art in Hindi.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 25%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p>The Skala logo embodies my interests in art and science. It shows the Fungus Penicillium, named for its resemblance to a painter&#8217;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&#8217;s a story of chance, necessity and innovation grounded in compassion and unshackled from profit motives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"979\" src=\"https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1-1024x979.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-669 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1-1024x979.png 1024w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1-768x734.png 768w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1-1536x1468.png 1536w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1-600x574.png 600w, https:\/\/skala-art.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Skala-Logo-512X512-1.png 1842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koshika Yadava is an Immunologist and Artist based in Basel, Switzerland. Her work explores the human experience. As a scientist and an artist, she inhabits worlds perceived to be at odds with each other. 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