Amrita Dhillon (b. 1990, New Delhi) is a Berlin-based artist whose practice explores memory, identity, and cultural narratives through painting, often working with velvet for its sensorial depth and shifting surface. Drawing from cinema, archives, and popular culture, her works suspend figures between presence and erasure, revealing the fragility of representation. In Dancers (2025), luminous performers emerge and dissolve across velvet, their gestures caught between celebration and concealment. Light shimmers while shadows absorb detail, transforming the scene into something both radiant and veiled. Here, Dhillon extends her exploration of how images—whether cinematic, historical, or personal—hold memory while simultaneously obscuring it. The use of velvet as a medium adds a tactile layer to the paintings. Enhancing the audience's engagement on a more sensory level. The fabric’s opulent texture evokes both warmth and darkness, absorbing light and pulling viewers into the psychological depths of the work. Velvet also possesses a unique quality where its appearance shifts with changing light, creating a sense of movement and dynamism.