Art Corner
Symbiofield
Symbiofield is an immersive audio-visual installation that creates a quiet, contemplative space within the festival. Drawing from long-term research in the jungles of Northeast India, the work uses the symbiotic relationship between orchids and trees as a metaphor for non-extractive coexistence. Visitors enter a sensory environment and are invited to share personal reflections on reciprocity which become part of an evolving archive.
Maati Xaal
Maati Xaal is an interactive installation inspired by Assam’s weaving and farming traditions. Built from bamboo and wood and threaded with Eri silk and muga, the work reimagines the loom and the plough as parallel forms of labour and care. A woven textile scroll moves slowly through the structure revealing stories of land, ecology and everyday life. The installation invites audiences to experience weaving as a living practice shaped by memory, rhythm and community.
Loose Identity
Loose Identity is an outdoor sculptural installation reflecting on the loss of traditional social roles and belonging. Two monoliths with empty King and Queen silhouettes reference Khasi social structures are now reduced to absence. As visitors step into these voids, the work prompts reflection on identity shaped by responsibility, memory, and what remains when meaning fades.
RIVER
With obvious reference to the mighty Brahmaputra with its ever changing moods and vastness, serving as metaphors for life’s journey, struggles, and dreams of human civilization for thousands of years, RIVER challenges ten eminent visual artists to re-imagine the same on their canvas and in clay. Ten eminent contemporary artists from Assam and Bengal (Santiniketan) come together at Sivasagar to celebrate land, river and people and share their stories with art as a part of Brahmaputra Literature Festival 2026.
ARGHYA PRIYA MAJUMDAR
SHEEMA BARUA
GOUTAM DAS
DILIP MITRA
KRISHNA GOSWAMI
MAHJABIN IMAM MAJUMDAR
SANGHAMITRA DAS
GOKUL CHANDRA PAUL
RISHI BARUA
SIBAPRASAD KAR CHAUDHARI