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Nitasha Malik
Spill the chai Sis
Acrylic, Modeling Paste, Brocade
61 × 61cm
In many South Asian homes, love rarely arrives dramatically. It lives quietly inside routines in cups of chai, unfinished kitchen work, and long evening phone calls between sisters that somehow last for hours.
This piece is inspired by those conversations I grew up overhearing part gossip, part therapy, part emotional survival. Complaints about relatives who would still be fed first at dinner. Laughter between exhaustion. Women holding entire households together, yet finally allowing themselves softness in these small moments of connection.
The painting itself carries fragments of that world. Ornamental textures flow through the surface like layered conversations passed through generations. Pieces of brocade fabric from my own clothing have been torn, embedded and preserved within the work transforming something once worn on the body into memory held by the canvas. The material becomes symbolic of South Asian womanhood itself: intricate, heavy, beautiful, resilient and quietly carrying stories within every thread.
Sometimes healing sounds like sisters laughing over chai long after everyone else has gone quiet.
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Exhibition dates 2 - 14 June 2026
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Please contact/email us for an additional domestic/international shipping cost. The artwork purchased from the exhibition will be available for collection after the exhibition period. Thank you for supporting our artists.
Nitasha Malik
Spill the chai Sis
Acrylic, Modeling Paste, Brocade
61 × 61cm
In many South Asian homes, love rarely arrives dramatically. It lives quietly inside routines in cups of chai, unfinished kitchen work, and long evening phone calls between sisters that somehow last for hours.
This piece is inspired by those conversations I grew up overhearing part gossip, part therapy, part emotional survival. Complaints about relatives who would still be fed first at dinner. Laughter between exhaustion. Women holding entire households together, yet finally allowing themselves softness in these small moments of connection.
The painting itself carries fragments of that world. Ornamental textures flow through the surface like layered conversations passed through generations. Pieces of brocade fabric from my own clothing have been torn, embedded and preserved within the work transforming something once worn on the body into memory held by the canvas. The material becomes symbolic of South Asian womanhood itself: intricate, heavy, beautiful, resilient and quietly carrying stories within every thread.
Sometimes healing sounds like sisters laughing over chai long after everyone else has gone quiet.
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Exhibition dates 2 - 14 June 2026
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Please contact/email us for an additional domestic/international shipping cost. The artwork purchased from the exhibition will be available for collection after the exhibition period. Thank you for supporting our artists.