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Body Memories

Date : 17 October 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue : KNMA, Saket

About the Event

Artist in Me series

Body Memories: Stitching the archive of our lived bodies

A workshop that will reflect on our relationships with our bodies and the myths, rules, and demands that have been imposed upon them. Together, we ask:

What myths have we been told about our bodies?

What has been demanded of our bodies?

How have they been asked to behave? What have they endured?

Through body mapping, stitching, and shared reflection, we will explore where we carry weight, warmth, or tension, and how stories about our bodies have shaped us. Participants will begin by tracing or drawing body parts, then stitching the “beauty rules” and body myths we have absorbed onto fragile fabrics. Around and beyond these outlines, we will add bold, resistant stitches, blocking, covering, or transforming myths into truths of our own.

This process creates an archive of body memories, one that challenges beauty norms, resists patriarchy, and transforms body shame into feminist solidarity.

What You'll Experience:

• Reflect on the myths and demands that shape our relationships with our bodies
• Learn body-mapping through drawing and textile stitching
• Transform beauty rules and body myths into powerful, stitched truths
• Create a personal textile piece that archives your lived body and desires
• Join a collective fabric statement of resistance and feminist solidarity

While you're here, we invite you to also explore KNMA's ongoing exhibitions — please touch gently: zines, comics, ephemera ; 'jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi' book sculptures of Saba Hasan; Extraordinary Line; and Moomin 80 - The Door is Always Open at KNMA Saket, the first-ever Moomin presentation in India.

Artist Bio

The workshop will be facilitated by Shivangi Singh along with the women of Rafooghar - The House that mends, a community space in New Delhi where women, who live on the margins and have faced discrimination and social exclusion for years, gather and find space and time for sukoon (peace) and fursat (leisure) through the medium of stitching and textiles.