The fifth edition of Triloka, an annual exhibition uniting three emerging artistic practices in a shared space, brings together fragments of terracotta, discarded textiles, electrical blueprints, and tangled wires. Featuring works by Moumita Basak, Nayanjyoti Barman, and Nirmal Mondal, the exhibition navigates domestic spaces, ecological systems, and inherited architectural histories, examining how personal and collective experiences are remembered and carried forward.
Lives Stitched in Fabric
Moumita Basak incorporates hand stitching, machine embroidery, waste cloth, and yarn into her work. Her practice, rooted in the realities of women's lives within domestic and public spaces in rural West Bengal, uses embroidery threads and recycled fabrics. Through stitching, layering, and appliqué, she transforms materials traditionally associated with women's labour into visual meditations on gender, movement, and agency.
Where Technology Meets Ecology
Drawing from memories of growing up around electric power plants in Assam, Nayanjyoti Barman's practice explores intersections between nature, technology, and urban systems. Working with plywood, digital meters, wire, paper, cardboard, and sculptural installations, he transforms discarded materials into complex visual structures reflecting ecological imbalance, industrialisation, and displacement.
Stories Etched in Clay
Based in Santiniketan, ceramic artist Nirmal Mondal draws from the architectural and spiritual heritage of Bengal, particularly Murshidabad. Using clay and terracotta, he creates sculptural forms that reflect inherited stories, faith, and collective memory. His practice revisits temple and mosque architecture, using fragments and eroding forms to speak about continuity, loss, and belonging.
Curator Lakshmi Nambiar remarks: "What made the combination especially exciting curatorially was that, although all three artists work with very different materials and visual languages, they are each engaging with ideas of memory, everyday life, and lived experience. Artists are now digging much deeper into experiences that have shaped them personally. That is where themes like belonging, migration, and the idea of home become so significant."
These are works that stay with you, inviting reflection on the threads that bind personal narratives to broader cultural and ecological contexts.
