Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Artists Trace How Memory and Time Remain in Material
Temporal Materialities is an art exhibition about how the past can remain with us.
It brings together six artists who explore memory, change and materials.
One artist remembers a childhood neighbourhood that has been changed by development.
Another looks at cities where buildings are repeatedly built and replaced.
Megha Joshi uses cotton wicks made for Hindu rituals to draw attention to women’s work.
Other artists build up, scrape away or mark their paintings in layers.
Those layers show that removing something does not always make it disappear completely.
The exhibition suggests that memories and traces can remain in places, objects and everyday work.
It is on view until 30 October.
Temporal Materialities, curated by Rashmee Pal Chouteau, brings together six artists to explore how materials can hold traces of time.
Debasish Mukherjee uses graphite and acrylic to map remembered routes and places in Chhapra that have changed or disappeared.
Pooja Iranna uses stone to consider the effects of continual urban construction, demolition and rebuilding.
Megha Joshi’s works with ritual cotton wicks highlight repetitive work and women’s labour, while questioning patriarchal structures.
Paintings by Ruchika Wason Singh, Sheetal Gattani and Samindranath Majumdar use layered marks and erasure to show how past actions remain present.
- Who
- Six artists—Debasish Mukherjee, Megha Joshi, Pooja Iranna, Ruchika Wason Singh, Samindranath Majumdar and Sheetal Gattani—are featured in an exhibition curated by Rashmee Pal Chouteau.
- What
- The exhibition Temporal Materialities explores how materials can hold traces of time, memory and change.
- When
- It remains on view until 30 October; the article does not specify the year.
- Where
- The exhibition’s location is not stated in the article.
- Why
- It invites viewers to consider how the past can remain present in materials, places, gestures and memories.
- Exhibition
- Temporal Materialities
- Curator
- Rashmee Pal Chouteau
- Artists
- Debasish Mukherjee, Megha Joshi, Pooja Iranna, Ruchika Wason Singh, Samindranath Majumdar and Sheetal Gattani
- Mukherjee’s materials
- Graphite and acrylic
- Iranna’s material
- Stone, used for the first time in her work
- Joshi’s subject
- Diya bati, or solte, the cotton wicks used in Hindu rituals
- Closing date
- 30 October; the year is not specified