Aniruddha Biswas, Talismans, 2022, series of watercolour drawings on paper showing personal objects brought from India, including textiles, bags, utensils and domestic fragments.

Talismans

2022

Talismans is a series of watercolour drawings of objects brought from India. Ordinary and intimate — a lunch carrier, folded textiles, bags, utensils, domestic fragments — these objects become quiet carriers of memory, attachment and belonging.

Presented individually, each object is removed from its original context and given a suspended presence. The drawings approach these belongings not as souvenirs, but as fragile anchors: things that travel with the body and hold traces of home across distance.

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9 entries

Title Talismans 1
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Title Talismans 2
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Title Talismans 3
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Title Talismans 4
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Title Talismans 5
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Title Talismans 6
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Title Talismans 7
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Collection Private Collection
Title Talismans 8
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm
Title Talismans 9
Year 2022
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 18 ✕ 24 cm