In Weaving what we carry, Pranati Panda presents a body of work that is as introspective as it is expansive—mapping the slow and deliberate paths by which time, memory, and selfhood accumulate shape. This solo exhibition marks a key moment in Panda’s practice: a synthesis of process and poetics that speaks to the layered terrain of personal and collective becoming.

Working across drawing, textile, and object-making, Panda’s materials remain intimate and often tactile—threads, fibres, lines drawn in meditative rhythm. Her language is one of quiet insistence: repetition as devotion, mark-making as a kind of witnessing. Each piece is a record, not just of thought or emotion, but of attention—a sustained act of looking inward while staying grounded in the world around her.

For Pranati Panda, thread is more than material. It is memory, emotion, and quiet resolve made visible—an element that holds space for what can’t always be spoken aloud. The show shares a deeply personal and meditative body of work where the red thread becomes a lifeline: a stand-in for blood, connection, vulnerability, and endurance. It gathers, knots, stretches, and returns—just like the emotional rhythms it echoes.

Panda works slowly, intuitively, with materials that are light and intimate: cloth, net, glue, and paint. The process is tactile and responsive, each layer shaped by listening—to her own thoughts, to the softness of the material, and to the quiet demands of the form itself. There’s no fixed outcome, only an unfolding. Each stitch becomes an act of presence, a moment of pause in a world that rarely allows for stillness.

The works in this exhibition exist in a space between tension and tenderness. Mesh and netting provide structure, while thread loops and spills through, resisting containment. In this play between softness and strength, Panda captures the delicate balance many of us live with: carrying unseen emotional weight while holding ourselves together.