Fish
A Kashmiri fish swims through myth and militarization. Salman Khursheed Lone's animation intertwines folklore, sacred ponds, concertina wires, and the endurance of living under occupation.
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Follow The Crowd
Driftwood and palm leaf figures at windows, facing the sea—Raj Mahanand explores how identity is never fixed, always shifting between crowds, expectations, and desires.
Between Despair and Renewal
Between despair and renewal: a charcoal self-portrait dissolving in loneliness, landscape paintings shifting toward light. Rakesh Y.M. holds both truths—isolation and resilience.
Death Circle
Time leaves traces in subtle ways—aging, dissolving, eroding. Krishna Murthy P S works with seeds, spines, and soil to explore cycles of growth, dissolution, and return.
Queering Spaces/Queering Gazes
Play with the dolls. Move them around. Three Kerala artists transform intimate spaces into sites of queer inquiry—fabric tents of chosen family, playgrounds beyond the binary, and self as subject.
Seeking Intimacy
Vivid palette, surreal dreamscapes, queer lovers in everyday moments—Shakibul Islam etches the portrait of the queer family into contemporary Indian life's visual language.
The house that remembers
Termite traces, sawdust figures, cow dung and plastic—four artists gather what is often discarded, assembling a slow archive of impermanence that refuses disappearance.
The Mark of a Shift
Five artists from Santiniketan explore how 'shift' pushes all things into existence—the human desire to shape land, the resistance faced, and the traditions born of negotiation.
In(visible)habiting
Through spectral architecture of transparent layers and shifting shadows, Honey Thomas makes visible the unseen nature of domestic life—the labour, presence, and time embedded in home.
நகவெட்டி nagavetti
Challenging medicalized notions of queer transitioning, anu's sound installation explores transwomanhood through self-made instruments, nail-cutting, and defretted guitars.
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Five parai rhythms become architectural language. Preeti Paari's thesis creates a space for Paraiyar women where caste boundaries begin to soften.
Staged Narratives
Two artists present distinct approaches to storytelling: Aswathy G S critiques domestic labour through terracotta, while Imran Ahamed paints dreamlike tableaux between memory and imagination.
Tension of Belongings
Three artists from Andhra Pradesh explore what it means to belong—to pottery as inheritance, to the endangered Banjara community, to the farmer's cycle that carries dreams.
Mobile Stories: Mobile Canvas Workshop
Visual storytelling outcomes from a three-day mobile phone workshop screen at ABC Art Room. Exploring observation, sound, light, and narrative—stories born from the device we carry every day.
Kochi’s Burning Pappanji
Experience Pappanji, Fort Kochi’s New Year ritual. This midnight burning of a giant effigy celebrates Kerala’s deep Portuguese and Jewish history.
The quiet beneath the rubble
Nights in a crumbling hostel, weak staircases, constant vigilance—Pratik Khurkutiya's sculptures and paintings trace how fear embeds itself in the body long after we've left dangerous spaces.
Known and Unknown
Soil becomes shared ground. Harshal Khatri's two-channel video installation with paintings explores the entanglement between visible and invisible forces of nature.
Land Erosion / Memories of a Land
The red soil of Birbhum, Bankura, and Purulia tells a story of displacement. Tanmoy Dutta creates a charged memorial for the Santal Adivasi community denied agency over their native land.
Earth's Last Stand / Restricted Terrain
The Musi River in Hyderabad, deteriorating under urbanization, becomes a dystopian focus for Dindi Praveen Sagar's paintings and sculptures interrogating capitalism and consumption.
The Panopticon
Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if discontinuous in action. Ten artists from across India transform Foucault's concept into an architecture of co-existence and shared vulnerability.
Dar – Dara – Dariya
The dari (rug) is where we rest after a long day. But what happens when burden and distress seep in, making comfort prickly? Jyoti's commissioned work invites us to enter a protective space between rest and play.
Remains of a home
What remains when a home is taken away? Aadil Farooq Malik, who lost his house to a road expansion project, explores the shifting meanings of belonging through architectural remnants.
Puwali - Play to Plant
Puwali means 'kid'—the start of life in its simplest form. Two NID artists highlight how every seed, every beginning, carries its own future through visual storytelling and hands-on workshops.
Ialong, hakum!
Two artists from India's Northeast explore gender norms and the nurturing essence of nature through wood, bamboo, and rich indigenous traditions. Nature as refuge, difference as beauty.