Have We Forgotten How to Feel?

Have We Forgotten How to Feel?

Artists: Rachita Dutta

If the emotional landscape of adulthood is a terrain we rarely traverse with honesty, Have We Forgotten How to Feel? unfolds those difficult terrains with humour, vulnerability and intuitive craft. This exhibition asks whether, in the rush of routine and seriousness, we have lost the ability to encounter feeling in all its awkward, unresolved and surprising forms. It opens a space where emotion, memory and the unspoken find voice through texture and symbol.

Rachita Dutta presents her first solo show marked by hand-stitched embroidery and textile works that draw from childhood myths, domestic rituals and emotional memory. Recurring motifs such as seeds, birds and matchboxes become vessels of tenderness, unease and quiet resistance as the act of stitching slows down the viewer’s encounter with feeling.

The exhibition encourages viewers to reconnect with feelings that are often suppressed, overlooked or taken for granted. By foregrounding emotion through tactile, labour-intensive surfaces, the show reveals how memory and sensation remain central to artistic expression and our understanding of ourselves.