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Labour of the Imagined

Labour of the Imagined

Imagination as resistance. Vineetha W explores creative labour beyond political binaries, granting equal significance to humans, animals, and nature in intimate, egalitarian paintings.

Is it Sunset in the himalayas

Is it Sunset in the himalayas

Is Ladakh facing enlightenment's dawning or fading into endless night? Kundan Gyatso's terracotta work carries the visual language of Thangkas and the weight of melting glaciers.

Capturing Slowness

Capturing Slowness

In Mumbai's frantic pace, women carve brief stillnesses in local train ladies' coaches. Diya Joseph sketches these fleeting moments of rest across two cities, two rhythms.

Through their eyes

Through their eyes

From Shimla—once the summer capital of British India—Vikas Kumar examines how being watched shapes who we are, and what it means to return the gaze.

Sacred Scapes

Sacred Scapes

Brick carries the weight of loss and transition. Urgain Zawa's installation from Ladakh links melting glaciers, paper-mache horns, and ancestral rituals against environmental disaster.

Thangka: Quiet Resistance

Thangka: Quiet Resistance

In a world of fast-paced urbanization, Yangchen Dolker's Thangka paintings of Dolkar and Jamyang become quiet acts of resistance—art forms that demand slowness.

Bohada

Bohada

Where Mumbai meets Gujarat, Palghar's Adivasi communities face displacement. Gaurav Tumbada's 'Bohada' celebrates the Waghoba—the tiger guardian—as a figure of resilience.

Milk Distributors

Milk Distributors

The bicycle—humble two-wheeled 'friend of the poor'—becomes a vehicle of freedom in Abhijit Das's large-scale paintings and sculptural work exploring mobility, care, and nourishment.

The People's Orchestra

The People's Orchestra

From a humble handcart in Satana to processions across Maharashtra—Rutuja Sonawane traces her father's 50-year journey with 'Swar Samrat', a brass band rooted in Ambedkarite ideals.

Residual Marks

Residual Marks

Termite damage becomes a way to think through internal conflict. Neelam Saini transforms wood and paper pulp into lattice-like forms where surfaces hold as much as they succumb.

Thinking Threads

Thinking Threads

Working with discarded clothing, Kerala-based artist Harsha P S cuts, sews, and repurposes textiles into forms of protest. See her work at Kochi Biennale, Kerala

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