The lives of those who move across borders, across cities, across railway tracks are everywhere in our world and rarely at the centre of it. They appear briefly in news coverage, in policy statistics, and in the background of photographs. They sustain economies, cross dangerous distances, and endure conditions most of us will never face. Yet their names are seldom recorded, and their stories are rarely told.

In this exhibition, Portia Roy's work asks us to look again. Working with woodcut and engraving into plywood and recycled cardboard, materials of transit, of packaging, of things in motion. She carves figures that resist disappearing.

For Portia, a groove cut into wood is not merely a mark. It is a path walked, a body in motion, a life that existed and deserves to be seen.

Session Details

Date: 15 April 2026

Time: 8:00 - 9:00 PM (IST) | 3:30 - 4:30 PM (GMT)

Virtual: Google Meet

Rooted in her own experience of growing up alongside stories of Partition and survival, and shaped by years of close attention to those living at the edges of social and political systems, Portia's practice turns the so-called "extras" of history into its central figures. Her work does not dramatise suffering. It insists on presence.

This private view is more than an introduction to the exhibition. Meet the artist Portia Roy, engage with the curators, and experience the works in an intimate setting.

We look forward to welcoming you.