Studio air green SPRING 2026

jayita barai

Jayita Barai (b. 1995, New Delhi, India) is a visual artist working primarily with painting, textiles, and material-based practices that explore memory, identity, and cultural narratives. She holds an MFA from the University of Hyderabad and a BFA in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi. Her work has been exhibited at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum (Mumbai), CIMA (Kolkata), Shrishti Art Gallery (Hyderabad), RCEMPA (Nagaland), ONKAF Gallery (Hamburg, Germany), and Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (Bangalore).

Her practice revolves around the themes of displacement, ecology and the shifting notions of home that goes beyond the physical structure that encompasses memories, dreams, emotions of the dreamer. Her medium of expression is drawing, sculpture and installations, using coir rope, discarded clothes, foraged natural materials to build sculptural forms that act like containers of life with knotting, weaving and tying as gestures that metaphorically represent protection, comfort and the togetherness of human and nature.

In her practice material, touch and the making i.e through the act of knotting is interlinked to each other , where one is inseparable from another.This action has material memory, a sequence of movements where each knot measures time, labor and touch.


“My aim is to create site-responsive assemblages that will hold the material memory of the Norwegian landscape.”

— JAYITA

“Assemblage is one of my ongoing projects that I wish to extend to the Norwegian landscape. The project is built around materials gathered during my walks in urban parks and urban forests, where I treat each walk as a foraging expedition rather than an ordinary stroll. I am excited for AiR Green residency at Søndre Green, as the surrounding Norwegian landscape presents an opportunity to extend my urban-born practice into a new ecological scenario. My aim is to create site-responsive assemblages that will hold the material memory of the Norwegian landscape and encourage stillness, focus, and tactile exploration.”.

JAYITA BARAI