‘You were there. I could hear you, but I only caught glimpses of you in the glass. Eventually I gave in and found myself staring at myself, reflected. Looking at…
Umesh Singh comes from an agricultural family from Bihar. Due to lack of sustenance in farming, his family migrated to an urban area by abandoning their traditional occupation. This series…
History of humanity begins with activities of geography and politics. Although boundary is a geographical expression, the idea of boundary cannot be separated from the essentiality of historical and political…
In my works, I portray my native land and try to express its untold stories. It is a visual cumulation of my memories of the land and its current /…
Sachin Bonde’s current series of works ‘The Black Metaphors’ is a study of irony: an irony of development, nation-states and commodification of desires. Through his sculptures, installations and etchings, Sachin…
Rumi Samadhan responds to Nasreen Mohmedi’s oeuvre through her visual reflections represented in digital compositions infused with ink and graphite drawings. Rumi tries to bring together various artistic influences and…
Coming from a lower middle-class Muslim family in Bengal, Ohida Khandakar in her work demonstrates the dichotomy between cultural hegemony and religious practice. Taking inspiration from miniature paintings, Ohida consciously…
An attempt in this essay is to decode Prabhakar Barwe’s practice outside arts historical perspective and observe his paintings, writings and notations against the backdrop of a psychological and philosophical…
The world of mining has been a central concern in my work. I began to work on this subject from 2010 when I was studying in M.S.U. Baroda. Initially, it…
My own trajectories of migration have made me conscious of the relationship between memories and movement. I have often ruminated on the narratives of belongingness, identity and nationhood while gathering…
My work is a visual diary through which I think, tell stories or respond to mythical narratives. As a result, my paintings evolve into narratives with astute amalgamation of mythical,…
People are surrounded by structural patterns in this world. One observes that patterns are everywhere: in daily act of life, in the physical world, and also, in man-made things. Structural…