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2025 Avantika Seth
12025-04-06T21:10:02+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a0841plain2025-04-06T21:10:02+00:00Carlin Liu Ziaf35c69e953cd4001ddc41bd48e720246e1701a08Avantika Seth is an oral historian, writer, and multimedia artist from India, currently pursuing an MA in Oral History at Columbia University. Her work explores grief, trauma, silence, tracing the shape of memory across families, homes, and displacement. With a background in journalism and community storytelling, she creates immersive, interdisciplinary projects that hold space for what is often forgotten, withheld, or unspeakable—centering emotional truth, intergenerational inheritance, and the poetics of listening.
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1media/an(other) - Ekta Shaikh.jpgmedia/an(other) - Ekta Shaikh.jpgmedia/an(other) - Ekta Shaikh.jpg2025-04-06T21:15:23+00:00an(other) (2025)10an(other) is a collective installation that invites visitors to explore another home—beyond time and space through image, sound, and an embodied experience.plain2025-04-21T17:32:28+00:00By Sarah Maacha, Avantika Seth and Ekta Shaikh
As part of an (other), a collective exhibition exploring the layered meanings of home, Thyme Capsules reflects on knowledge passed through bodies, recipes, and quiet rituals. It asks where oral history lives, beyond the archive: in thyme. in tea, in the earth and the body. It holds what can’t be packed in my suitcase {the sun, my mother’s hands, my grandmother’s prayers} carried across the many homes I’ve made and remade.
Avantika Seth
As part of an(other), a collective exhibition exploring the layered meanings of home we carry within us, Will You Remember What I Choose to Forget? is an immersive installation and quiet reckoning with memory, rupture, and the traces of home. Rooted in the experience of growing up within a fractured family, the work explores how silence becomes survival—and how space remembers what we try to forget. It invites a slow encounter with what lingers—through fragments, language and its absence, and the weight of remembering.
Ekta Shaikh
As part of an(other), a collective unveiling the layered intimacies of home, Humsafar explores companionship and class through Farukh's bond with Habul, his friend and domestic help. Their journey crosses Pakistan and Bangladesh, anchored in nourishment and care, capturing a tender masculinity among the men I knew. Mediated by phone technology, the exhibit underscores how shifting times sundered me, a curator/daughter, Farukh/father/friend, and Habul/chacha/amma. Visitors can record messages, forging a resonant tapestry of shared memory.
NOTE: These in-person, private exhibits are accessible by invitation only.
