Nine emotions
Indian classical aesthetics names nine rasas: nine emotional registers a work of art can hold. Across three days in Milan, they are the register of the cultural programme: live craft, talks, and fashion moments running alongside the trade floor.
Shringara
Silk brocade woven with gold zari. The rasa of adornment, carried by the textiles on the floor.
Hasya
The lightness of the public days: colour, workshops, discovery.
Karuna
Craft as livelihood. Every technique on the floor sustains a workshop, a family, a region.
Raudra
Terracotta, kiln and dye-vat. The heat inside every finished surface.
Veera
One hundred and thirty makers crossing a continent for a first edition.
Bhayanaka
Standing before a loom that holds ten thousand threads in tension.
Bibhatsa
The trained eye that rejects nine samples and keeps the tenth. Quality as a discipline.
Adbhuta
The first encounter with a technique you did not know existed.
Shanta
The quiet at the end of the working day: cloth folded, tools set down.
The Womb of OM
OM as the shape of the universe: a continuous cycle of creation, existence, and return. Drawn from temple carvings where life emerges inside forms of sacred sound, the installation holds the idea that origin is kept within the symbol itself.
The umbilical cord becomes the visual thread of life, joining beginning and becoming in one unbroken flow. Visitors pass through a tunnel of origin, vibration, and spatial transition, and move through cycles of birth, growth, and return.
Feel it on the floor.