Joydeb Roaja has an interconnected performance, painting, and drawing practice that highlights the challenging social and political landscape of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts. The area is home to eleven Indigenous groups, including the Roaja’s community, the Tripura. The artist’s work is tied to the experiences of indigeneity, often emphasising the deep and symbiotic connection of these groups with their land, as well as the fight for recognition and rights in a state that has denied them. In his line drawings, figures are entwined with the natural world and at times, share the pictorial plane with army personnel, guns and ammunition recalling the historic military occupation of the hill area. This presence remains imprinted in the communities’ collective memory with Roaja’s works forming an empowering call to demand autonomy and ensure preservation of these minority cultures.