About
Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk narratives and indigenous rituals as hybrid ambiguous forms that function as totems, portals and talismans. Deploying tapestry weaving, stitching, dyeing and hand-building, he works intuitively with fibre and clay giving physical forms to his anxieties, mythologies, and individual and collective memory. His works exist as relics; vestiges of working through inner monologues, that sit outside of place, culture and period.
Born in Kolkata, India, Sayan lives and works in London. He studied Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts, London (2021), London and textiles at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (2013). His work has been shown internationally at solo and group shows, including Jhaveri Contemporary, (2022), South London Gallery (2021); Saatchi Gallery (2021); Nature Morte (2021); British Textile Biennial (2023); Frieze, London (2022); Art Dubai (2023) and Cooke Latham Gallery (2023). He has been an artist resident at the Thread artist residency run by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal (2023) and is currently a resident artist at the Sarabande Foundation, London.
