Ishita Chakraborty - «The River Flows In Our Veins»

Ishita Chakra­borty –
«The River Flows In Our Veins»

August 14th – 31st Decem­ber, 2025

The River Flows In Our Veins marks the 22nd pro­ject of the gro­wing public art exhi­bi­tion ART FLOW – Art in the Lim­mat­tal.

Post­co­lo­nial trauma and both cul­tu­ral and eco­no­mic migra­tion – inclu­ding her own – form the artis­tic rese­arch field of Ishita Chakra­borty (*1989), who was born in India and has lived in the canton of Aargau for many years. She was recently awarded the pres­ti­gious Manor Art Prize and is curr­ently exhi­bi­ting her works at the Aar­gauer Kunst­haus.

For ART FLOW, Chakra­borty addres­ses a theme that is par­ti­cu­larly pre­sent in the Lim­mat­tal and the Baden region: the over­lay and ent­an­gle­ment of natu­ral and lin­gu­i­stic rea­li­ties.

Inside the his­to­ric wooden bridge con­nec­ting Turgi and Ennet­turgi (Unter­sig­gen­thal), the artist has crea­ted a poetic, three-part light instal­la­tion.
«The River Flows In Our Veins» is com­po­sed of multi-colou­red fake neon and reflects on the lin­gu­i­stic diver­sity of the natio­na­li­ties living in the Lim­mat­tal, the poetry of diver­sity, and the rich­ness of migra­tion.