Narrative Tables: A "Jugalbandi" of Traditions and Time

Ghare Baire explores the inner and outer worlds of a traditional Bengali woman—her shifting presence between the intimate space of the home and the performative space beyond it.
The work reflects on how identity is negotiated across these two realms: one deeply personal, layered with memory, care, and quiet resilience; the other shaped by visibility, expectation, and social roles. Within this movement between ghare (inside) and baire (outside), relationships transform some becoming deeply rooted and intimate, while others remain fleeting, surface-level, and observed.

Through textile, material, and form, the project holds these dualities together softness and strength, visibility and invisibility, belonging and distance. It questions how a woman inhabits space, and how those spaces, in turn, define her.
Ghare Baire is not just a reflection of place, but of emotional landscapes of what is held within, and what is revealed to the world. A table becomes the site where these worlds meet where conversations begin. Here, tradition and contemporary practice sit across from each other, not in opposition, but in dialogue. Each surface carries layers of memory, intervention, and response.
This is not merely an object.
It is a "Jugalbandi"
where time speaks to itself.