Unraveling Silence: Yasmin Jahan Nupur’s exhibition showcases quiet resilience

"Unraveling Silence" brought together a body of work that reflects Yasmin Jahan Nupur's ongoing engagement with memory, displacement, and the quiet resilience embedded in everyday life. Through soft sculptures, textiles, and immersive installations—rooted deeply in the material and emotional histories of Jamdani—the exhibition unfolded with a delicate, contemplative rhythm. For Nupur, textiles are more than material; they are vessels of intimate and collective stories.

Across the exhibition, suspended weavings, layered fabric panels, and ghostlike garments created an atmosphere where absence felt palpably present, and silence emerged as an active, almost tactile force.

Jamdani, with its centuries-old legacy in Bangladesh, appeared throughout the exhibition not as ornamentation but as a conceptual anchor. Its slow, communal, labour-intensive weaving process echoed the emotional cadence of the works themselves.

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Through it, Nupur explored questions of labour, identity, and the cultural memory held within fragile materials long after histories begin to fade. Rather than guiding viewers toward a single conclusion, "Unraveling Silence" opened a space for reflection. The installations encouraged slow looking, inviting visitors to consider how silence functions in their own lives—whether as protection, erasure, resistance, or a gathering place for unspoken stories.

Curated by Tanzim Wahab and inaugurated at Bengal Shilpalay, the exhibition was deeply responsive to the venue's raw architectural setting. The works engaged with the space's unfinished textures, amplifying the tension between delicacy and solidity that runs through Nupur's practice.

"Unraveling Silence" is open to visitors at Bengal Shilpalay until November 29, 2025, from 4pm to 8pm daily.