Laal Paar, opening this week at Method gallery in Kala Ghoda, brings together Ritu and Surya Singh of WOLF, a creative team from Jaipur which has used found objects and discards to create art and tell stories for years, and Srila Chatterjee, founder of Baro Market, a creative design store in Mumbai. The show borrows its name from the simple Bengali handwoven white cotton saree with a red border even as its timing coincides with Durga Puja, the celebration of the divine feminine in the state. “It is a marker of sisterhood when women step out clad in it,” notes Ritu Singh. She adds that the show celebrates the coming together of feminine energies of healing and nurturing, of honouring feminine voices, and retelling ancient stories of the historical silencing and erasure of women.

Three Days Off, an encouragement to women to honour their moon cycles and go within while its 450 stitched cowries are a reference to the 450 periods an average woman has in her lifetime