Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan Curated by Dr.Devika Singh with Amy Tobin and Grace Storey 12 November 2019 – 2 February 2020
Desmond Lazaro, one of the participating artists, sojourned in Cambridge for three months to interview migrant families from Bangladesh, Chile, Hungary and the US. He took references from their family photographs and portraits…
‘Where the Birds Never Sing’ by Soumya Sankar Bose
Ongoing Photography series since 2017
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Similar were the thoughts when the Bangladeshi refugees in Marichjhapi, West Bengal were shot…
‘Anamorphosis: Notes from Palestine, Winter in the Kashmir Valley’ By Praneet Soi On view till December 7 “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Interpretation depends on the vantage point where the interpreter stands at the moment of…
'Reliever’ by Piyali Sadhukhan Nepali handmade paper, canvas, cotton fabric, bangles, acrylic paint 45.5"x 65” “It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.” ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy Every time a female artist talks about the wounds, bruises and the Violence Against Women, a voice…
‘India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt’ at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai 16 Oct - 16 Dec, 2019 "A bridge is a meeting place, a possibility, a metaphor." - Jeanette Winterson The ongoing show at CSMVS attempts to trace the history of a four-hundred-year-old bridge that…
Hunarmand, 'Each night put Kashmir in your dreams' series by Nilima Sheikh Scroll painted on both sides, 305cm x 183cm Casein tempera on canvas This is a series of 9 artworks wherein Nilima Sheikh weaved memories and histories with text into a visual language that speaks about an idyllic Kashmir as opposed to the reality of…
My Name is Th-Red Installation with Bamboo and Thread Blurred Perimeters, Blurring Identities - A North Eastern Artists’ Perspective Oct 26- Nov 20 “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” ―Ani Di Franco ‘Blurred Perimeters, Blurring Identities - A North Eastern Artists’ Perspective’,…
Rumal with Scenes from the Ramayana, Jammu & Kashmir, 18th century. 26 x 25 in. Sita and Rama: The Ramayana in Indian Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Aug 10, 2019 – Aug 30, 2020 “… secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are…
Angst series by Soham Gupta 2013 – 2017 “Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.” – CharlesBukowski SohamGupta’s odyssey of the last few years provides us with a glimpse into a world where the ‘insane’ is…
The Illumination of the Shadow Gaganendranath Tagore Watercolour and oil on card 27 cm x 18.8 cm “Beauty is illumination born of the dark.” ― Thomas Lloyd Qualls And it is this darkness on the new moon night of Diwali that has been illuminated by the light of festivity in this rare painting of Gaganendranath…
Lands, Waters, and Skies Performance by Nikhil Chopra September 12- 20, 2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
“I shall speak, not of self, but of geography” – PabloNeruda
In his recent performance at the The Met, Nikhil Chopra has slipped into different personae while slowly moving from one gallery to another like…
'Worship of Dasamata' A. Ramachandran Oil On Canvas 78”X192” 2014 “The Earth has its music for those who will listen.”–Reginald Holmes A Ramachandran's art, predominantly oozing a sense of decorativeness, witnessed a shift in its theme from urban angst to the peaceful aesthetics of the rural life. Village women have appeared in his…