Unraveling Silence Solo Exhibition
“Unraveling Silence Solo Exhibition” A solo exhibition of soft sculptures and textile works rooted in Bangladesh’s material heritage — nakshi kantha quilts, jamdani weaving, and zari embroidery — reclaiming fabric long dismissed as craft into feminist, political art. The work draws on the colonial destruction of thriving weaving traditions by the British East India Company and the artist’s personal encounter with five unemployed Jamdani weavers who began working again through family support. Each thread holds memory of land, labor, migration, and womanhood, foregrounding what refuses to disappear. Oct 10 – Nov 29, 2025 Bengal Shilpalay, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The Touch
“The Touch Performance” The Touch;confronts the violent reality of borderlines, barbed wire fences that strong through land, memory ofthe land, and human connection. The performance compels the body to move through these imposed divisions,to experience how crossing or even approaching a border can strip away dignity, Violence, silence voices, andfracture relationships.Barbed wire becomes more than a material boundary; it becomes a psychological and emotional barrier. Toreach across it is to risk vulnerability. To speak across it is to confront distance, surveillance, and separation.The work embodies the tension of trying to touch, to communicate, to remain human in the face of systemsdesigned to divide.In this charged space, a simple gesture transforms into an act of resistance—an insistence on intimacy,exchange, and shared humanity despite the violence of separation. Kochi-Muziris Biennale Curator: Nikhil Chopra and HH Art Space, Date: 12/12/2025- 31March 2026, Venue: 111 Merkez, Fort Kochi. Support by Mubarak Foundation
Black Gold
Black Gold In my installation Black Gold (2025), I trace the politico-economic valuations of black pepper across centuries:from its use as currency in the medieval Roman Empire, to its status as a luxury commodity whose acquisitionand clandestine trade once shaped global power dynamics, and finally to its origin in India’s nodal MalabarCoast—a region that drew Western maritime expeditions eastward and ushered in successive waves ofcolonialist. Mellow sea sounds and the sharp scent of peppercorns permeate the installation, activatingtraditional modes of pepper cultivation and distribution through displays of wooden harvesting ladders fromKerala, vials of spice samples, ship fragments, and maritime artifacts.I situate the local social histories of pepper within the broader intercontinental networks it generated throughsail-shaped, suspended fabric panels that reference territorial histories and cultural exchanges catalysed by trade routes. Panels composed of colonially exploited and uprooted materials, muslin, silk, and jamdani areembroidered with maps that highlight the Western overland construct of the Silk Route and the ancient maritimecorridor of the Golden Road. These routes, centralising India’s role, connected Asia, the Middle East, Africa,and Europe.Through Black Gold, I map evolving socio-political cartographies using objects, everyday ingredients,imperially subjugated materials, and historical documents. The installation invites viewers to navigatefragmented and cautionary histories traces of the past that continue to shape the present. Read More Kochi-Muziris Biennale Curator: Nikhil Chopra and HH Art Space, Date: 12/12/2025- 31March 2026, Venue: 111 Merkez, Fort Kochi. Support by Mubarak Foundation