Satyanarayana Gavara (b. 1997, Andhra Pradesh; lives and works in Baroda) Born into a family of tenant farmers, he draws on lived experience to place the politics and materiality of food at the centre of his practice, rendering the everyday objects and rituals of rural Indian life as metaphors for the systems that shape them: landlordism, economic policy, and the unpredictability of weather and yield.

He works principally in woodcut, choosing the slowest and most physically demanding of the printmaking techniques to speak about labour, land, and the body. His visual lineage runs from Nandalal Bose and Haren Das to Dürer, Goya, and Käthe Kollwitz, while his conceptual framework draws on Lévi-Strauss and Barthes' understanding of food as a system of cultural meaning, grounded in ritual specifics entirely his own.

His recent work marks a shift from figuration toward the symbolic, in which food becomes a totemic presence commanding the narrative on its own terms. In parallel, his woodblocks have moved from being tools for printmaking to becoming finished works in themselves, incised and painted at architectural scale, situating his practice within a long tradition of woodcut as a rural, political medium.