Beyond Borders: Who I Am Between Homes

Beyond Borders presents Sunanda Khajuria’s sustained inquiry into the fluidity of identity within a globalized era. Living between India and China, Khajuria explores the psychological dimensions of cultural displacement and the ways in which belonging is negotiated across distinct national, linguistic, and aesthetic spheres. Through figurative symbolism, her work maps the emotional terrain of migration, examining the tensions between preservation and transformation—what is carried forward, what is relinquished, and what emerges in the spaces between homes.

By synthesizing South Asian narrative traditions with contemporary transnational aesthetics, Khajuria challenges fixed notions of origin, nationhood, and cultural authenticity. Hybridity functions not merely as a consequence of movement, but as a deliberate methodology through which new forms of visual knowledge are produced. Identity is presented not as a stable destination, but as an evolving process of becoming, shaped through cultural intersection, memory, and material exchange.

The exhibition brings together works in acrylic on linen, natural pigment and Chinese ink on silk, and ink-and-color drawings presented within traditional Chinese book forms. Across these diverse media, Khajuria constructs a visual language that reflects the complexities of migration, belonging, and cultural transformation in an increasingly interconnected world.