Updated On: 30 January, 2019 07:50 AM IST | | Dalreen Ramos
A textile art exhibition by an Indo-Fijian artist weaves together the histories of indentured labour

The artwork embedded in the circle is a picture of Charan with her fua (paternal aunt).
In a small nook at Wodehouse Road, you'll learn that some histories are more powerful than others. And some are invisible, until an artist codes a powerful visual language to revive her community's collective memory. When we step into Clark House Initiative, which houses 24-year-old Indo-Fijian artist Quishile Charan's solo exhibition Ee Ghaoo Maange Acha Ho Jai (These Wounds Must Heal), we aren't surprised to see her make herself at home. The space, she tells us, ties in well with her artistic oeuvre. "My practice is a social practice. It is not commercialised work," she says.
A walk through history