Nabanita Guha
B.
1982
Kolkata | Silchar, Assam
"
The body as substance and spectacle
"
Nabanita Guha lives and works between Kolkata and Silchar. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Visual Arts from Rabindra Bharati University.
Her practice centres on the human body as a site shaped by cultural, social, and medical narratives. The body appears not as a stable form, but as residue, bearing traces of lived conditions, collective histories, and moments that are often overlooked. Moving between vulnerability and confrontation, her images reveal physicality that is at once intuitive and unsettling, delicate yet marked by decay. Fragmented and unmarked by fixed identity, these bodies dissolve conventional contours to expose fragility, interiority, and the instability of human existence. Working primarily with watercolour on Fabriano paper, she deliberately embraces the medium’s sensitivity to evoke stillness, material vulnerability, and a quiet intensity that resists conventional expectations of the form.
artworks
From the notebook of Hieronymus: the spinster of Oddi and the leaky Adenomera
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
31.8 x 60 in
In the Dusk by the Sea
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
59.3 x 36.4 in
The hideous gutter of Ischemia: archive of the mutilated five
2019
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 12.6 in
Brimming with Hiccups
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11 x 9.4 in
The colony: of contagious intimacy, loose talk and insomnia
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
36 x 60 in
Thin and frail, the winglets encircled the void
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
Things
2025
Drawing on Fabriano paper
22.05 x 89.37 in
The slithery infidelity of careful reluctance finally settled itself
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
10.5 x 12.5 in
The Feast that Ended with a Fight
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11.10 x 7.14 in
Unveiled and clipped, the crib melts / The Castle of Saleha
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 31.2 in
Feast of Mirabilia and the impetuous lies of tranquillity
2024
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 37 in
The Bedsorean Lull….and the bed ruminates 8
2022
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
30.3 x 27.06 in
I lay numb, waiting to be smeared
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
10.5 x 12.5 in
Recum Infundibula Lamina: the Hieronymus folly
2019
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
13 x 40 in
Smell me and fade away in the fringes
2022
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 30 in
Confined, I fed them for years till I was lost in the wilderness
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
Brooding in the Yellow Glow
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11.11 x 8.10 in
The Bedsorean Lull...and the bed ruminates 1
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
15 x 20 in
What might separate us is not absence but not thinking the imagined presence shared
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
9.4 x 13.7 in
Whistling the Dews
2024
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11.5 x 9.4 in
Enquiries into the vulgar: the succulent folds of moist reluctance, the licentious flatulent blurt, and the wrinkled intimacy of greasy frontiers as I smell my mouth
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
16 x 60 in
Flies, Flies, and Flies…the sea sees no ties
2024
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 29.8 in
The spoils of the sea of Hispaniola and the irresistible unhurried rambling of the Ampulla of Vater
2019
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
16 x 60 in
A faint smell after the eruption
2019
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
19 x 60 in
Seven daughters of Monimala: they look lively in their stillness, hypnotic in their frankness, and absurdly unpretentious in their lucidity; they say no language
2019
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 12.6 in
Still, the wrinkled outside remained calm
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
9.6 x 13.6 in
I am liquid
2019
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
16 x 60 in
Un-marinating in the Twilight: silent hemorrhage and the post diarrheic revelation
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
28 x 72 in
All they could do was grow their slimy excesses and fatty annoyances all over
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
The Bedsorean Lull...and the bed ruminates 2
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
15 x 20 in
The Bedsorean Lull...and the bed ruminates 6
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
15 x 20 in
They never knew about the suffocation
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
The Bedsorean Lull...and the bed ruminates 5
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
9.5 x 13 in
My heart is not ribbed: only that it exhales steamy vapours of palpitating utopia
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
Buried Me Inside
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11 x 8.12 in
The Bedsorean Lull...and the bed ruminates 9
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
15 x 19 in
The cold sweat
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 29.5 in
Their quivering breaths sprouted gossip at every turn
2022
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
30 x 24.05 in
And the Eyes Fizzled Out in the Delirium
2022
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
19.5 x 14.5 in
Skirting an Old Fear
2024
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11.10 x 8.00 in
What might separate us is not absence but not thinking the imagined presence shared: in flesh I return
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
Embroidering the loss: I blurt, I splatter, I leak my contents to the world
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 49 in
Sometimes I wonder why they were so afraid of the light: the unease of carrying the bulk
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
The Bedsorean Lull...and the bed ruminates 4
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
15 x 20 in
Here, elsewhere, somewhere...
2025
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
59.2 x 42.2 in
The Birth of a Colony One Black Night
2024
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
10.13 x 8.14 in
In-Between the Pillows
2024
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11 x 8.12 in
The Bedsorean Lull...and the bed ruminates 3
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
15 x 20 in
Daydreaming
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11.9 x 8 in
In the narrow ‘strip’ or the quilted tracery of the familiar?
2021
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 30 in
‘Will you fade? Will you perish?’ or enliven in the endless mutterings
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
36 x 36 in
All this time, I lived an imagined life: the invisible whore from Hilum
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
Swarm
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
11.13 x 7.14 in
After all, they would never be exposed to the stir that lies beneath
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
12.5 x 10.5 in
Corpus Luteum: the areola of great collapse and a humble beginning
2018
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
28 x 60 in
The Fairy
2019
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
10.5 x 12.5 in
The insatiable birth at midnight
2023
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
59.3 x 36.4 in
The Bedsorean lull….and the bed ruminates 10
2022
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
30.5 x 27.8 in
How long does fear last?
2022
Watercolour on Fabriano paper
60 x 30 in