About
Rupa Paul is a Kolkata-born visual artist working between New Delhi and Kolkata, with an ongoing engagement with Ladakh. Trained at the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, her practice moves through drawing, moving image, photography, performative gesture, archive and site-responsive installation.
Rather than beginning with a fixed medium, Paul begins with an unresolved question — a gesture, a person, an inherited fragment, a landscape, or a trace whose meaning continues to shift. Her work follows how memory passes through bodies, materials and places, and how acts of preservation can also transform what they attempt to hold.
Her ongoing project, BAPI: What Remains Before Disappearing, includes the Foundation Project titled BAPI: An Archaeology of Design Memory. This Foundation Project is implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), under the Arts Practice – Explorations Programme, 2026.
Work
BAPI: What Remains Before Disappearing
Drawing, archive, photography, performative gesture, moving image, projection and domestic architecture. Bagbazar, Kolkata.
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Rewoven
Single-channel moving image, 9 min 40 sec. Ladakh.
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A Study of a Gesture
Single-channel video, performance for camera, 2 min 41 sec. Ladakh.
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Kone Main Chup Karke Baito / Sit Quietly in the Corner
Performance for camera, single-channel moving image, photography, drawing and installation.
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The Spine Remembers / The Labyrinth Returns
Drawing series, graphite, staining and erasure on paper.
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To Mend What Does Not Return
Drawing, performance for camera and moving image.
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Still/Life
Photographic / performative image series.
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