n its fourth edition, the Kathmandu Triennale 2077 bore the date from the Nepali Bikram Sambat calendar corresponding to the year (2020), for instance, took 15 years to create and was shown at the Patan Museum alongside Nepali modernists such as Puran Khadka and contemporary Hong Kong ink painters Hung Fai and Wai Pong Yu. Works at the Nepal Art Council confronted societal issues, with Ashmina Ranjit presenting documentation of her 2004 public performance decrying state violence and Zamthingla Ruivah’s Tangkhul-style weavings created in 1986 after Indian police killed a young woman in Manipur. Transformation of the physical landscape was the focus at the Taragon Museum with Uriel Orlow’s field of mustard plants outlining an old mill and Bidhyaman Tamang’s print series (2022) mapping the region’s urbanization.
