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Confluence Collective
India
Exhibition: 12 - 16 Feb 2025
Venue: Sojourner House
Home, a myriad of meanings. If one senses comfort, another trauma. If the four walls are physical here, they evoke an abstract there. Surety, stability…claustrophobic.
Despite it all, our identities are necessarily bound to this idea of Home. Yearning for one, a primal need. Inseparable from our sense of being and belonging. And so, we seek, eternally seek.
Through our collective work, we explore these different notions of Home in the laps of the eastern Himalayas. Our lives here, communal and individual, are never bereft of this seeking. Made from a mosaic of memories, migration, rituals, resilience, and renegotiations, Home both anchors and unsettles.
…a space to call our own, perhaps.

Venue Partner
Artist Biography
The Confluence Collective (TCC) was born out of a deep-rooted conviction to curate a space to preserve, archive and retell the histories of the Darjeeling – Sikkim Himalayan region. We are a group of individual researchers and artistes, working together to create a collective space that has eventually taken the form of a Collective. As the TCC, we want to preserve our ancestral histories and in doing so curate localised archives of the place and community that makes up the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas. The Darjeeling – Sikkim Himalayas has been in the heart of British Colonialism and continue to live with the consequences of this colonial history. Any effort at decolonising must begin with the recognition of this reality. Our histories have always been written for and we have always been ‘represented’, often distorting our stories and realities with cultural, historical, social political and legal consequences. Our vision for the Collective is to collectively re-imagine the hill societies- the people, community, and the region through the stories from the place- that offer new ways of ‘seeing’ and ‘imagining’ the place.
https://www.theconfluencecollective.com/
https://www.theconfluencecollective.com/