what do we do with what is broken?
what do we choose to mend, and what do we discard?
who gets to decide what is broken?
what does a constant state of brokenness produce?
how much does it matter how something breaks?

in what ways do we use break in language—
a war breaks, a heart breaks, silence is broken, the law is broken?

what kinds of ruins and debris are left behind?
what is carried forward as memory, and what is actively erased?
what kinds of futures can we imagine with fragments?

Five artists respond to brokenness as both condition and method, across material and social worlds, in memory, relationships and institutions. Their practices approach breakage not as an anomaly, but as something carried, inherited, and negotiated daily. They offer stories of grief, of families splintering and reforming, of returns to homes that no longer recognise those who come back. They excavate the habits, silences, and modes of thinking that women are taught to carry with shame.

Many of us move through the world with an ingrained impulse to repair relationships, systems, and communities. And when repair is impossible, what remains is grief. Here, we sit with weight and debris, listening closely and asking insistently what we choose to carry forward, and what kinds of futures might still be shaped from what refuses to be made whole.

Participating Artists
Nabina Sunuwar
Sofiya Maharjan
Tara Abdullah
Taranga
Tsering Tsomo Gurung