BRACE! BRACE!

“I was five when we had to leave Sri Lanka. We did so by plane. That’s I think where I first saw an air safety card.”

Over the years, this fleeting image of instruction and reassurance evolved into an enduring inquiry into memory, safety, and belonging. In this body of work, the artist transforms the humble air safety card - a universal symbol of control amid uncertainty - into a site of personal reflection. What begins as a child’s recollection becomes a meditation on displacement, the fragility of security, and the quiet rituals that accompany departure.

Across painting, printing, collage, marble inlay, and weaving, the artist collaborates with master craftsmen in India - with Farhan Mohammad in Agra, Reyas Ali in Kolkata and Kilim weaving with Ashish Singh in Bahodi - to reimagine the iconography of the air safety card as sacred artefact. Each material translation, from Pietra Dura marble to woven textile, becomes an act of searching: for meaning, for home, for the moment suspended between loss and flight.

These works evoke both the universal language of caution and the deeply personal memory of leaving - a child’s view from the window, a family in transit, a life taking off into the unknown.