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Sayan Chanda: How Many Fires, How Many Suns, How Many Dawns?

De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, East Sussex, TN40 1DP
Installation view of Sayan Chanda’s “How Many Fires, How Many Suns, How Many Dawns?” at De La Warr Pavilion, featuring dark sculptural forms and a ref

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Kolkata-born artist Sayan Chanda re-envisions devotional objects, folk gods and mythic stories as hybrid forms shaped by identity and critical approaches to colonial histories. Working intuitively with fibre and clay, he uses processes such as weaving, stitching, quilting, dyeing and hand-building to create spaces where tales, figures and practices can be reimagined, rather than belonging to a single time, place or belief system.

How Many Fires, How Many Suns, How Many Dawns? is a major new commission that continues Chanda's interest in female and lesser-known deities. These figures, whose presence has endured through communal rituals, often carried out in the home, have often been overlooked or altered through patriarchal retellings.

Photo Credit: Sayan Chanda How Many Fires, How Many Suns, How Many Dawns, Installation View, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-On-Sea. Photography Rob Harris

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Season (14 Feb 2026 - 31 May 2026)
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Monday - Sunday10:00 - 17:00

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