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Parmeet Kaur-Tesson is an artist working through indigo, soil systems, and agricultural memory.

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Her practice asks how we can live with land without dominating it.

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Raised in a farming family in Punjab, India, she grew up understanding colour, soil, and labour as inseparable. This agricultural intelligence remains the foundation of her work.

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Now based in Cognac, France, she develops projects within landscapes shaped by viticulture and fermentation economies. Indigo cultivation forms the core of her methodology — planting, harvesting, fermenting, and dyeing by hand — treating colour as a living process dependent on soil health, climate, and seasonal time.

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Working across India and France, her practice engages agricultural systems as contemporary sites of ecological and political inquiry. Through site-responsive installations and material research, she examines land ownership, ritual economies, industrial acceleration, and the erosion of soil-based knowledge.

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Her projects emerge through collaboration with farmers, artisans, scientists, and local communities. Rather than aestheticising nature, she works from inside its systems — where land, labour, animals, and material processes remain interconnected.

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Transmission is central to her practice. Through residencies, workshops, and commissioned projects, she shares agricultural and fermentation-based knowledge as lived methodology rather than heritage display. Production remains limited and land-bound, prioritising accountability over scale.

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Installation, in her practice, becomes a space for ecological accountability.

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Parmeet Kaur-Tesson’s work has been presented at Hampi Art Labs (India), CHABRAM² – L’École Centre d’Art Contemporain (France), Fondation Martell (France), Domaine de Boisbuchet (France), and international platforms including Material District and the Future Materials Bank.