Mumbai’s Sakshi Gallery opens its latest exhibition Memory Keepers on February 26, 2026, bringing together five artists — Debashish Paul, Élodie Alexandre, Hasan Ali Kadiwala, Moumita Basak, and Sudipta Das — whose works explore memory as both fleeting and enduring. On view until March 31, the show unfolds as a contemplation of how the personal and collective pasts are continually reshaped in the present.
The exhibition reflects on memory not as a static archive but as a living, mutable experience that informs identity, material, and place. Several artists — including Debashish Paul, Hasan Ali Kadiwala and Sudipta Das — will be showing at Sakshi Gallery for the first time.
Working with textile, Moumita Basak draws from intimate recollections of her childhood in Srirampur, West Bengal. Her layered fabric compositions evoke the quiet negotiations of womanhood within social constraints, where natural landscapes become metaphors for refuge and self-reflection.
In Hasan Ali Kadiwala’s paintings, the architectural hues of his hometown Siddhpur, Gujarat — soft pinks and pale blues — transform everyday scenes into lyrical meditations on belonging. His works suggest that memory and place remain inseparable, their interwoven rhythms forming visual poetry.
French artist Élodie Alexandre turns to the body as a vessel of memory, rendering sensations of discomfort, vulnerability, and endurance into sculptural and performative forms. Similarly, Debashish Paul’s practice links body, landscape, and identity in a fluid, borderless terrain of self-exploration, where personal and environmental worlds mirror one another.
Sudipta Das’s works extend memory outward to inherited histories of displacement, particularly the migration from East Bengal to Assam. Through delicate terracotta and paper figures, she constructs tender narratives of loss and resilience, invoking the shared story of movement and survival.
Spanning textile, terracotta, paper, and performance, Memory Keepers situates remembrance as both an intimate gesture and a collective act. The exhibition underscores how art can hold memory not as a distant echo of the past, but as something continually taking shape in the present moment.
Memory Keepers
Dates: February 26 – March 31, 2026
Venue: Sakshi Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai
Timings: 11 am – 6 pm
Cover Image: Debashish Paul | Me with my Pet
Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.
