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Practice

Home returns through altered images.

Le foyer revient à travers des images transformées.

I explore how my relationship to home has changed through displacement.

I work from images, objects and memories that have become difficult to approach directly: photographs of my village in West Bengal, rice-field landscapes, blurred screenshots from video calls with my mother, objects I carried from India, and places in France that reactivate a memory of home.

I do not try to restore these images intact. I approach them as surfaces already made fragile by distance, technological mediation and time. In my drawings, paintings and installations, an image may be erased, perforated, covered, transferred, dissolved or reconstructed through matter.

I work with graphite and charcoal in powder and pencil form, oil, casein, gum arabic, paper, linen, wood, acetone and pigments collected locally in France. I prepare some binders by hand. In one series, pigments pass through perforated photographs of rice fields; in another, I paint images from calls with my mother and partially remove their surfaces with acetone.

These gestures are not simply formal effects. They describe a relation to home that has become indirect, unstable and incomplete. Displacement is not only a subject in my work; it changes how I see, remember and recognise.

I work in the interval between presence and disappearance, attachment and distance, recognition and loss. I understand belonging not as a fixed state, but as a fragile relation continually remade between places left behind, places inhabited, and the images connecting them.