Mool at Bikaner House explores memory, migration and home

Camphor hangs in the air as the sound of water fills the room around Wahida Ahmed’s floor-based works on Assamese stilt homes facing floods. The installation opens *Mool* at Bikaner House, where 20 South Asian artists consider home through memory, migration and belonging.

Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana, the exhibition moves through four connected sections: The Community, The Soil, The Body and The Script. The works draw on family archives, craft traditions and personal recollections, alongside borders, land and water.

Ahmed uses weaving to explore identity and migration. Deena Pindoria works with Ajrakh block printing and natural dyes, while Hema Shironi combines hand embroidery, vermillion boxes and old photographs to examine cultural identity, displacement and migration.

Riya Chandwani draws on Sindhi folklore and oral histories carried by her grandparents after their departure, bringing family memory into the exhibition’s wider consideration of place and belonging.