The Space Between, 2024
Born in 1996, Burdwan, Moumita Basak comes from a village in India where she recognises that her relationship with her home weighs heavier than with her external environment. It is her entanglement with nature and the acknowledgement of how she strays from it every day that inspires her work. She speaks of womanhood and her experiences of growing up in India as a woman.
“My medium and art-making techniques are deeply rooted in the socio-cultural fabric of the region I belong to and my personal experiences of being a woman in a patriarchal society. As an eco-feminist artist, my usage of motifs of plant weed, abandoned clothes and tea as colour explores issues like gender inequality, politics of clothing and the rural-urban divide in India”
Her work resonates with themes of experience, memories and familiar surroundings. It is these spaces that she inhabits that inspire her practice. She speaks of loneliness as a friend that everyone has. A relationship strife with turmoil, disturbance and yet joyous and peaceful. These emotions with her loneliness also percolate into her practice. Basak works with various mediums such as textiles, waste cloths, hand stitching, machine embroidery, the traditional Indian Kantha, tea and coffee tints and unique prints.
Her work has been included in many national and international exhibitions, most recently in the 17th International Triennial of Tapestry at the Central Museum of Textile in Lodz, Poland (2022) of which she was the gold medal winner. She was also included in DREEM KEEPERS in Warsaw, Poland and she has achieved an array of achievements, awards and scholarships.