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Becoming UnBecoming: Santosh Kumar Das
Preview: 8th January, 2026 | 6-9 pm

“As a child, I was totally captivated by the desire to become someone else.” Santosh Kumar Das’ autobiographical Becoming UnBecoming* invites you into a space of imaginative becoming, where materiality, memory, and the metaphysical continually shape and reshape one another.

Becoming UnBecoming | Santosh Kumar Das

Preview: 8th January 2026 | 6.00 - 9.00 PM

Happy New Year! ARTISANS’ is delighted to begin 2026 with ‘Becoming UnBecoming’, Santosh Kumar Das’s new works, a paean to a childhood shaped by fantasy and imagination, transformation and identity.

“As a child, I was totally captivated by the desire to become someone else.” This lifelong obsession shapes Santosh Kumar Das’s artistic journey today.

Rooted in the visual language of Mithila traditions, yet informed by a Western art education, Das occupies a distinctive position between two philosophies of image-making: one grounded in communal ritual and shared symbolism, the other shaped by individual artistic inquiry and introspective self-reflection. This dual orientation informs both the contemporary form and conceptual framework of the series.