Painting in the Time of Corona Watercolour on Paper We're afraid of everyone Afraid of the sun Isolation The sun will never disappear But the world may not have many years Isolation - John Lennon, Isolation Isolation in these times has not only cast a shadow over our sunny days but…
Photoshoot for Adalaj ki Vav Watercolour on Paper 16x11 in 2020 “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us” Winston Churchill Century-old buildings that adorned our country are symbolic of the past it left behind. Mithil Thaker’s depiction of the Adalaj ki Vav in Gujarat reminds us today, on World…
FORGOTTEN MASTERS: INDIAN PAINTING FOR THE EAST INDIA COMPANY Wallace Collection, London Co-curated by William Dalrymple 4 December 2019 – 19 April 2020 “History wanted to be remembered." -Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts The spectacular exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London, for the first time in history, has credited…
As 2019 ended, Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) lit the last flickers of festivity in the happening city of Goa, bringing together practitioners, experts and enthusiasts from a myriad of disciplines ranging from visual, performing, live, Culinary Art to literature, film, fashion and crafts. The fourth edition of SAF, Dec 15-22, was an amalgamation of curated exhibitions and…
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…