Sayan Chanda reimagines votive objects, folk narratives and indigenous rituals as hybrid ambiguous forms that function as totems, portals and talismans. Deploying tapestry weaving, stitching, dyeing and hand-building, he works intuitively with fibre and clay giving physical forms to his anxieties, mythologies, and individual and collective memory. His works exist as relics; vestiges of working through inner monologues, that sit outside of place, culture and period.
Sayan Chanda was born in Kolkata, India and lives and works in London. He studied Textile Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts, London. His work has been shown internationally at Jhaveri Contemporary, (2022); South London Gallery (2021); Saatchi Gallery (2021); Nature Morte (2021); British Textile Biennial (2023); Frieze, London (2022); Art Dubai (2023) and Commonage Projects (2022). He has been an artist resident at the Thread artist residency run by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal (2023) and is currently a resident artist at the Sarabande Foundation, London. In 2024 he will be attending the Cove Park Funded Residency, UK.