Purvai Rai's artistic exploration centers on the interplay between memory, identity, and materiality. Witnessing India's complex socio-political realities informs her process, prompting a cathartic and behavioral relationship with these stories through ritualized, repetitious, art-making processes including weaving, mark-making and printmaking. Guided by research and developed by materiality—her works function as metaphorical reflections on the ever-shifting social, political, and cultural landscape she inhabits.