Mita Ghosal's Lost on a Loom

Lost on a Loom examines lost South Asian histories through the lens of Indian Textiles and Fabrics. Known for their vibrant colors, alluring textures, and indigenous motifs symbolizing various aspects of culture, trade, religion and nature, these materials hold stories that have molded South Asia’s history as well as its ties to a Colonial past. Weaving together a first-generation Bengali protagonist with the stories of fabric from Bengal, the piece uses dance, storytelling, video imagery, familial narratives, and recollections of the past, to draw parallels to the movement of material, and the movement(s) of people and economic and social disparities.