Naga Nandini Dasgupta

I am a product designer, I teach design and I have also worked with traditional craft and craftspeople in India.

Artists Statement
The balance between order, solidity and fluidity, ephemerality is part of the eternal search. While living can be a set of trade-offs, the spark inside is constantly struggling against the pattern and seeks the liquid state of being, of pure flow.

Through my work, consisting of paintings, photographs, found objects and craft objects, I am exploring the idea of memory.
Through the years of working and living as a product designer, working with crafts that are ancient, with people whose tools, techniques and ways of living have remained nearly the same for hundreds of years, there have been many moments of recognition, of deja vu, of comfort, of familiarity.

I am beginning to believe that each of us have memories, good and bad, like anthropological memories, of places, people, material, tools/work, sounds, textures, feelings etc. that come from a long time ago, from a common source. Each of us accept or reject these memories and most of our life decisions are based on these. Our personal histories are more than our lineage and the physical routes we take, more than our genetics even. So ce...

Trained as product designer at NID Ahmedabad, India.,