Akanksha Bhagya

Collection Statement

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Memoire of my childhood explores the deconstruction of childhood memory, drawn from fragments of my upbringing in Sri Lanka & Indian cultural background. Each memory holds a moment when an object was used incorrectly, and that misuse became its own form of art. Rattan cane-weave chairs pushed together to form a makeshift sofa, a cap with fake long braids attached, worn to imagine the hair I did not have due to my small, often sick body reflecting a sense of grief and yearning, or my mother’s saree wrapped the wrong way, without knowing the rules I was supposed to follow. Based on Derrida’s (2025) theory of deconstruction as a double movement, my collection treats “getting things wrong” as an intuitive and playful act of unmaking and remaking. Cane weaving communicates structure and joinery. Human hair serves as both a trim and a design element. Saree draping is deliberately made to look unconventional, creating new silhouettes through improvisation.

Instead of presenting a polished return to heritage, my collection stays close to my childhood perspective of intuition, playfulness, imperfection, and a lack of concern with getting things right. It is a memoire conveyed through construction, materials, and silhouette, in which snippets of memory are rebuilt by hand.

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