1 — 4 October, 2026
Rabbet DG.1 Studio, Bussey Building, 133 Rye Ln, London SE15 4ST

Private Viewing: 1 October, 6 - 9PM
Viewing Hours: Friday - Sunday, 1 - 4 October, 12 - 6PM

cam.contemporarie presents a constellation of pause, a solo exhibition by London based artist, ekabo donyi ezhava. 

ezhava explores the contemporary written word and its relationship to the metaphysical self, as an ongoing constellation that’s built through sculpture, abstracted language, and disparate materials. Although Ezhava’s steel and aluminum forms allude to the body, they consider the transient nature between themselves and the material to explore concepts of self, release, identity, and myth. 

Their grandmother’s Galo community in Basar, Arunachal Pradesh, and its oral traditions inform their thinking around memory and transmission beyond the linearity of writing. Often incorporating figures from indigenous Galo Indian and Himalayan cultural traditions, such as the Kirtimukha, or Tibetan carpet flayed man, ezhava creates their own reinterpretations of the face of glory often seen in Hindu architecture, temples and thresholds that speak to symbols of detachment and enlightenment. They ask themselves, “how can a word represent me without my body?” or “how can I give myself over to the material to immortalise an idea?”. 

Each sculpture, and “skin” is a representation of shedding further into the present moment. The manipulation of the material ultimately symbolizes the plurality of selfhood and spirit— from the malleability of human nature and the soul, to aluminum when softened, hardened, textured, or covered in wax pigments. ezhava invites the viewer to pause, to consider opacity and refusal as a tool of communication––allowing the materials to take on transformation, embodiment and emboldened selfhood. 

ekabo donyi ezhava

ekabo donyi ezhava’s interdisciplinary practice visualises speculative worldbuilding across sculpture, performance and civic programming. They mobilise ephemerality as a mode of resistance against homogenisation, classification and containment. Their practice is heavily influenced by Indic mythology and art, their Ezhava ancestry and the friction between inherited forms of knowledge and a Western education. Working between Hindi, Hindustani, Urdu, Malayalam and English, donyi investigates translation as a key methodology for understanding cultural mutation as “we” pass between linguistic, digital, material and imaginary registers. Alongside their studio practice, donyi develops civic and participatory programmes that extend

these concerns into collective research, as the co-founder and curatorial organizer of Moth London CIC and Spider London. 

They have presented and exhibited work at HyphaStudios, The Good Rice, St. Georges Garrison Church, Purist Gallery, and Dalston Den to name a few. They hold a BFA from Bournemouth University (21’) and MFA, Central Saint Martins (26’), where they were recently nominated for the UAL Graduate Award.