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 on constellations of pause, a solo exhibition by London based artist ekabo donyi ezhava. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. 

The exhibition examines the conventions of contemporary written language and its inability to communicate the multiplicity of selfhood. By removing written words from bureaucratic and theoretical texts, ezhava maps the punctuation that remains, tracing networks that become constellations of pauses. These abstract cartographies are then translated into sculpture, diagrams and disparate materials.

ezhava’s steel and aluminium forms allude to unfolded bodies and containers of writing such as pages and books allowing the viewer to interpret the variance of language. Each sculpture, or “skin,” is imagined as a torn page, shedding as it changes, symbolizing the plurality of selfhood and spirit — from the malleability of human nature and the soul when seen rather than read, to the aluminum and steel forms when softened, hardened, textured, or covered in wax pigments alluding to the everchanging duality of material bodies. The raw surfaces retain the gestures, pressures and interruptions of inscription, suspending these traces within the materials they work with.

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. Their work draws from figures and forms within Indigenous Galo, Keralan and Himalayan cultural traditions, including the Kīrtimukha, the deity meaning “face of glory,” and the Tibetan carpet of the flayed man,  symbolizing the process of shedding the physical body and the desire to attain spiritual liberation. Using these figures as guides and metaphors, ezhava reimagines and produces their own fragmented and reassembled characters. Through these forms, the work considers detachment, alienation, transformation and transience.

They ask: “how can language categorise our bodies?” and “how can we extend ourselves into the world by giving ourselves to its materials?”

ezhava invites the viewer to pause between what is written and what remains, considering opacity, refusal and uncertainty as their own passages of communication. Materials become part of a web of poetic transformation, embodiment and relation to the world around us.

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.

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