9 May 2025 – ‘some things in the belly’, a multimedia exhibition curated by Bunu Dhungana,
delves into the divides and connections shaping mother-daughter relationships across generations. This exhibition will be held at the Nepal Art Council, Babermahal, until 16 May 2025. It is a part of the Art Exchange: Moving Image South Asia Programme, which is supported by the British Council and organised by LUX and the Art South Asia Project.

Due to its commitment to creating opportunities for artists and arts professionals in Nepal and connecting them with the arts sector in the UK, the British Council supported curator Dhungana in participating in the Art Exchange: Moving Image South Asia Programme.

The programme offered mentorship, professional development, and networking opportunities for early to mid-career visual arts curators. Dhungana travelled to the UK for a research and networking programme with other South Asian curators in November 2024. Dhungana also received support for the realisation of an exhibition project that looked at moving images and showcased works of UK and Nepali artists.

The paintings, installations, poetry, short stories, moving images, film, letters, and performances that make up ‘some things in the belly’ create a multilayered space for reflection, conversation, and connection. The artists featured in this exhibition – Asmita Badi, Shradha Devkota, Irina Giri, Ujjwala Maharjan, Tripty Tamang Pakhrin, Shristi Shrestha, and Prateebha Tuladhar from Nepal and Rachel Lowe from the UK –invite you to reflect on the different ways we communicate, empathise, and negotiate our emotional and cultural landscapes. A series of artist talks, presentations, lectures, workshops, performances and film screenings accompanies the exhibition.

Dhungana’s exhibition explores our ability and inability to understand one another across generations, cultures, and experiences. How do we know each other beyond the roles defined by these frameworks? How can we navigate the desire for closeness while acknowledging the need for distance? This exhibition explores the unspoken complexities of these relationships and the difficulties in finding shared language to bridge emotional, cultural, and generational gaps.