Arpita Akhanda
“Relics of a Requiem”
Arpita Akhanda (India, 1992) lives and works in Santiniketan. Working across paper weaving, photography, performance, installation, and video, my practice conceptualizes the body as a “memory collector”, a repository of lived experience and a site for post-memorial reconstruction. Born into a family shaped by the trauma of displacement during the 1947
Partition of India, I explore the intricate relationship between contemporary life and inherited trauma. I navigate this terrain through intergenerational memories, family archives, and the elusive quest for home.