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Review

The Elemental You

A special feature of the show were the profound texts that accompanied some of the works. That was another point of convergence for the three participating artists—all of them are remarkable writers, in the words of the curator, who has not shied away from sharing their creative output in the written form as well. The show pushed the boundary of viewing art through our traditionally calibrated lenses and, in doing so, put KNMA in a different league of nurturing Indian art (needless to say, it is already in a different league altogether). With an overwhelming majority of Indians consuming and creating art through conventional tropes, shows such as ‘The Elemental You’ awaken us to the limitless possibilities that we ignore for the sake of convenience. 

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International Reviews

Ephemeral Visages

Ayesha Sultana feeds off her environment-generating processes that articulate her vision. Her need to not over-narrativize her work is compelling, and sometimes unsettling, as one finds various access points that could point to the potential underlying genesis; however, she is keen to empower the predicaments one offers in favour of her practice.

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From the Ghor to the Gallery: Liberating the Feminine Realm in Indian Art

Review Of Spaces of Their Own: Women artists in early 20th century India, Curated by Aparna Roy Baliga and Debdutta Gupta, September 19 - October 15, 2024, Akar Prakar, Kolkata.

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Collaboration

TAKE Collaboration turns attention to a critical yet under-examined force in South Asian art: collaboration as both method and mindset. Moving beyond the focus on individual authorship, this issue maps how artists, curators, communities, and institutions co-create meaning in an increasingly interconnected and complex world. At a moment shaped by digital shifts, global entanglements, and urgent social questions, collaboration emerges not just as practice, but as a necessary framework for thinking and working together. Bringing together diverse voices, the issue repositions art as a space of dialogue, negotiation, and shared responsibility; where creativity, care, and collective purpose intersect. In doing so, TAKE Collaboration reimagines the art world as a living ecology of relationships, offering new ways to understand how artistic, ethical, and political concerns converge today.

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Inside Collaboration

Dreaming Together

Memory as a Method: Textures of Anticolonial Legacy in Birsa Munda Rebellion

Cooking with Fire and Making Art: What Makes us Human Collaboration at Bukhara Biennial’s Café Oshqozon

Hylozoic/Desires

Indian Parampara versus the Mythology of the Lone Genius

Participation Is Not a Formula

Raqs Media Collective: Critical Intervention and Creative Resistance Coalesce into a Collaborative Constellation

Crossing the Invisible Borders

Collaboration as Crossings: KNMA in the Global South

Jaipur Against the Grain: Craft, Colour and Contemporary Knowledge

Manisha Gera Baswani: The Poetics of Transnational Memory

Catching the Bull by its Horns: Tyeb Mehta

Manifesto of What is After

Whimsical Reality of Madhvi Parekh’s Folk Modernism

Power Structures Through the Looking Glass: Young Curators’ Perspectives

Sculpting the Century: Reflections on Materiality and Modern Indian Sculpture

Vivan Sundaram’s Elegiac: Last Inquiries

The Arche-signs of the Ancestors: Prasanta Sahu

Twenty-First Century Meditations on Land

Amphibian Aesthetics: Lens to Hyphenated Identity

Where Archives Breathe: Self-Narration and Oceanic Memory in AUTOPOIESIS

The Long Now Of Us: Collage, Memory, and Contextualising Return

A Symbol of Rebuilding, Renewal and Reimagining: Chobi Mela Returns

Mapping a Memory

(Un)Layering Histories Through a Young Generation Of South Asian Voices

Ellora: An Enduring Love Affair

unmyth: Works and Worlds of Mithu Sen

TV Santosh, History Lab and the Elegy of the Visceral Incantations

Speech Acts

Redefining the Twenty-First Century Museum

Unfolding the Possibilities of South Asian Contemporary Practice

Quiet Forms of Resistance

International Symposium: Indigenous: Resistant Epistemologies and the Normative Frame of the Contemporary

The Ardee Foundation: Beacon of Art, Education and the Ethics of Cultural Stewardship in Contemporary India

South Asia in Motion: TAKE on Art × KALĀ

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The Act of Giving - A Fly on the Wall

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Living Between Tides: Amphibian Aesthetics and the Question of How We Inhabit the Present

In an era when the climate crisis is no longer an abstract future but a daily condition of life, the question confronting contemporary art is not simply what it represents, but how it thinks. How does art hold contradiction, vulnerability, and survival at once? How does it remain porous to history while alert to planetary urgency? Amphibian Aesthetics, the inaugural exhibition at Ishara House in Kochi, enters this question not as metaphor alone, but as method.

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