Join us for the Exhibition Walkthrough of ‘SHIFTING IDENTITIES’, with the curator, Archi Banerjee.

DETAILS:
Date: 06 Dec 2025 | Saturday
Time: 6.00 – 7.00 pm

SHIFTING IDENTITIES brings together craft-practices from the West Bengal Bangladesh, and Sindh–Gujarat–Rajasthan borderlands. Now in its second iteration building on a well-received debut at Arthshila Santiniketan that explored how Partition reshaped textile traditions across South Asia–this edition shifts its focus to the lived experiences of women. Unpacking history through intimate, gendered stories, the exhibition explores how women redefined tradition and created living archives of change and continuity across shifting borders, through their craft.

Archi Banerjee is a designer, craft researcher, and scholar of South Asian art history, with a particular focus on living traditions and textile crafts. A MEAD Fellow from the University of the Arts London and a graduate of the London College of Fashion, her work explores how Partition reshaped the subcontinent’s craft communities. Through fieldwork, curatorial projects, and critical writing, she examines questions of heritage, cultural continuity, displacement, and identity in South Asia. She currently works as a Research Specialist at MAP Academy, Art and Photography Foundation, Bengaluru.

Venue: Arthshila Ahmedabad
2-G, Opposite Ahmedabad Management Association, Panjrapol, Ambawadi – 380015.