Arpita Akhanda

Akhanda works across paper weaving, photography, performance, installation, drawing, and video to explore the body as a memory collector and a site of post-memorial reconstruction. Through metaphorical processes such as paper weaving, she intertwines the warp of inherited memory with the weft of contemporary experience to examine identity, displacement, and erasure. Her fragmented and obscured visual language evokes lost, silenced, and displaced narratives. During the residency, she will investigate the relationship between water bodies and embodied memory. Fukuoka’s rivers—shaped by layered histories of migration and cultural exchange—offer a compelling site for this exploration. By weaving personal narratives researched during her stay with the riverine landscape, she aims to create work that bridges geographies, histories, and collective memory.