• Khirki - 3 by Riya Chandwani
  • Khirki - 3 by Riya Chandwani
  • Khirki - 3 by Riya Chandwani
  • Khirki - 3 by Riya Chandwani
  • Khirki - 3 by Riya Chandwani
  • Khirki - 3 by Riya Chandwani

Khirki - 3 by Riya Chandwani

This work, like the previous one, explores the windows of abandoned Sindhi homes as metaphors for memory, absence, and the possibility of return. These architectural openings, delicately detailed stand as quiet witnesses to the lives once lived behind them, and the silence that followed Partition. To carry this longing further, the work incorporates verses by Shaikh Ayaz: 

“Ho Jadahein Warandiyon Koonjhriyon, Ho Ho Ho Allah, Allah... Ho Jadahein Warandiyon Koonjhriyon, Har Har Kary, Hul Alomiya, Tadahein Milandaseen, Ho Ho Tadahein Milandaseen.”

These lines evoke images of the verandahs echoing with gentle footsteps and the repeated calls of memory. They speak to a divine witnessing of time’s passing and to a reunion that still flickers on the horizon. The windows here become not only openings but thresholds between longing and light, loss and the dream of return. 

This artwork was exhibited at Method in the group exhibition "The Parliament is Now in Session" (August 2025)

 Size 33" x 22"
Medium Paper Burn and Gouache on Rice Paper
Edition Size Unique
Year 2025
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Riya Chandwani

Riya Chandwani is an artist based in Mumbai. She completed her Master’s degree in painting from Sir J. J. School of Art and was born in Katni in 1995.

Her practice engages with displacement, intergenerational memory, historical lineage, and femininity. Drawing from her family’s roots in Sindh (now in Pakistan), she reflects on the lasting impact of the Partition of India in 1947, where inherited memories of migration intersect with gender and cultural identity.

Working across drawing, painting, paper burn, and installation, Chandwani creates figurative works that address race, class, and marginalisation. Through allegorical narratives and vivid colour, she explores hybrid cultural forms shaped by rupture, while her drawings trace ideas of loss, memory, and home.

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