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Two Sides of My Window

2026
Materials: natural indigo and rice paper on board
91 см x 127 см
Category: painting
Item Number: 154686
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About the Artist

Jit Chowdhury works with two materials that carry the weight of history in their fibres. Natural indigo - the dye that drove Bengal's colonial economy, that the indigo cultivators of 1859 revolted to be free of - and sholapith, the soft white pith used for the ephemeral crowns of Bengali wedding ceremonies and the great Durga Puja pandals, crafted by a hereditary community whose knowledge is disappearing from the world. Through painting, layering, embossing, and block printing, Jit puts these materials into conversation with the changing architectural memory of South Kolkata. His practice traces a deeper current: the long Bengali-Japanese aesthetic exchange, from Okakura Kakuzō's visits to the Tagore family through to the natural-dye and slow-material traditions shared by both cultures today. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest India and placed at the Taj Taal Kutir, Kolkata.