What Women Carry | Featuring Chaitali Morajkar & Harshada Kerkar

‘What Women Carry’ is an exhibition that explores ideas and stories connected with the weights associated with womanhood, in all its struggles, dreams, and freedoms. Featuring the artistic expressions of Goan women artists Harshada Kerkar and Chaitali Morajkar, the exhibition celebrates the complexity and resilience of women.

Women carry worlds within them, they take on roles that range from having a job to changing the world to keeping a home often all at the same time. They carry burdens, let go of others, and reshape themselves along the way. These weights tell stories, tracing the paths of those who came before and those yet to follow.

Harshada’s women, created in charcoal and graphite, depict the daily loads women carry with them. Chaitali’s imagery, juxtaposed on the back of earthen pots, moves freely, beyond reality into surreal and dreamlike realms. One reflects on reality’s weight; the other, the possibilities that arise when it lifts. Together, they reveal the vastness of womanhood—its struggles, strengths, dreams, and freedoms.

Here, we hold space for all of it—the heaviness and the lightness. And in doing so, we make room for a new kind of strength, not just in carrying, but in choosing to let go.