Nothing Twice: Curated by Ushmita Sahu

"Nothing Twice": Group Exhibition Explores the Profound Poetry of Everyday Life Through Works by Young Women Artists 

Emami Art, Kolkata presents an intimate meditation on impermanence, memory, and the unrepeatable nature of human experience.  

Emami Art announces "Nothing Twice," a group exhibition featuring nine young women artists whose works transform the ordinary moments of daily life into profound artistic statements. Running from 20th March to 9th May, the exhibition draws its title and conceptual framework from Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska's meditation on life's unrepeatable nature: "Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to rehearse." 

Curated by Ushmita Sahu, "Nothing Twice" brings together artists working across painting, textiles, drawing, video, photography and ceramics to explore the intimate rhythms and overlooked gestures that define human experience. The exhibition examines how materials historically associated with domestic and craft practices—cloth, clay, and pigment—can be reimagined as contemporary artistic languages that speak to both the poetics and labour of everyday existence. 

Exhibition Highlights: 

The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the everyday as a space of significance and reflection, suggesting that art can mediate what cannot be rehearsed, giving form to the fleeting and dignity to the ephemeral moments that define our shared humanity. 

Participating Artists