Mita Chowdhury: Inheritance

Inheritance is an immersive installation that transforms everyday materials into vessels of memory, care and connection. Through fragile yet grounded forms made from broken gum tree branches, turmeric and handwoven Bangladeshi Khadi, the work explores how making can hold and pass on inherited stories across generations and geographies.

Formed through slow, meditative processes of hand-stitching, wrapping, and dyeing, the installation weaves together Chowdhury’s lived experiences as a first-generation Bangladeshi-Australian artist. Each act of making becomes a gesture of remembrance – an embodied conversation with the women in her family, her mother and grandmothers, and the knowledge systems they carried through touch, craft and care.