A solo exhibition of embroidered photo prints, revisiting fragments of childhood when imagination unfolded without boundaries.
"At six, alongside my cousin-sister, four years older, we invented entire worlds without toys or costumes—becoming doctors, teachers, princes, and princesses, borrowing gestures from everyday life and stories from books." - Abhijit Pal
The house where these games once bloomed now stands abandoned, slowly reclaimed by nature. On these photographs, embroidered dialogues emerge like whispers, stitching together the vitality of those imagined worlds with what feels absent today—the unstructured, screen-free spaces where storytelling once thrived.
Inspired by the Kantha stitching tradition of West Bengal, where women threaded memory, longing, and survival into cloth, each piece blends embroidered storytelling with documentary photography. An ongoing series of embroidered photo prints offering a quiet meditation on memory, place, and the fragile endurance of childhood imagination in a world that rarely pauses to listen.
Join the artist for a Celebration Event at Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin, including complimentary refreshments on Thursday evening 15 January. Please check our website later to RSVP.
Abhijit Pal is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist working with photography, embroidery, and mixed media to explore memory, childhood, and familial narratives. Pal’s work has been exhibited internationally and locally, including Project 8 Gallery and Trocadero Projects, Melbourne, Australia; Deutsches Haus, New York, USA; Jimei x Arles, China; and U-Center for Arts and Culture, Germany, and other curated projects. His practice bridges documentary realism with conceptual inquiry, weaving together lived experience, cultural narratives, and philosophical reflection on the human condition.
Image credit: Abhijit Pal My Elder Sister – The Royal Kitchen (detail), 2025, Embroidery on archival photo print.
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