Archive · 29 Aug 2026
Ruma Choudhury’s Paper Works Explore Nature at Emami Art
Ruma Choudhury has made an exhibition about nature and paper.
Her artworks can look like clouds, rain, water or land.
The clouds rise upward instead of stretching across the whole sky.
She watches nature carefully to find interesting shapes.
Rain can even help make marks on some of her artworks.
She creates paper from materials such as plant fibres, cotton and leftover tussar.
The paper may be thick, thin, rough or uneven.
The exhibition shows that paper can be more than a surface for drawing; it can be part of the artwork itself.
Ruma Choudhury’s solo exhibition, “Elemental Encounters: Practice as Ecological Archive,” is on view at Emami Art until September 18.
Her works depict clouds, rain, water and terrain through closely observed, vertically building forms.
Rain sometimes helps create the artworks by leaving marks on the paper.
Choudhury uses tussar waste, plant fibres, cotton and charcoal to construct textured sheets with varied densities and edges.
The exhibition presents works that exist between painting and object, emphasizing paper’s material possibilities and ecological associations.
- Who
- Artist Ruma Choudhury.
- What
- Her solo exhibition, “Elemental Encounters: Practice as Ecological Archive,” presents paper-based works inspired by natural forms and made through detailed fibre research.
- When
- The exhibition is on view until September 18.
- Where
- Emami Art.
- Why
- The exhibition explores how observations of nature and the material possibilities of handmade paper can shape artworks.
- Artist
- Ruma Choudhury
- Exhibition
- Elemental Encounters: Practice as Ecological Archive
- Venue
- Emami Art
- Exhibition end
- September 18
- Materials
- Tussar waste, plant fibres, cotton and charcoal
- Artistic focus
- The relationship between natural forms, ecological observation and handmade paper
- Form
- Works positioned between painting and object