LIPI'S “No One Home” opens

“No One Home”, an exhibition of installations, drawings and videos by Tayeba Begum Lipi, opened at the Bengal Art Lounge in the capital yesterday. The exhibition presents a series of objects of women's daily life, made of safety pins and stainless steel razor blades: heeled shoes, hand bags, a bathtub... Displayed in a gallery space, these personal items create a feeling of hollow intimacy for the owner is nowhere to be seen. The viewer is left with the strange impression of peering through an empty apartment.

The exhibition also showcases series of pencil drawings alluding to the aging process and its physical consequences. The metamorphosis of time is further explored in 2-channel video in which the artist is seen cleaning up her ancestors' graveyard; the work delves on the tension between what is and what was, inviting the public to introspection.

“No One Home” deals with womanhood, transition and ultimately mortality -- issues that Tayeba Begum Lipi continues to explore in her characteristically candid endeavour.