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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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
AWA 2025-26
The Act of Giving - A Fly on the Wall
Arpita Singh, A Feminine Tale, 1995. Copyright: Arpita-Singh, Image Credit: Justin Piperge. A distinctly chalky pink predominates Arpita Singh’s canvases. Sometimes it appears in wreaths of flowers blooming in unbeckoned corners of the canvas, or in candy-floss-like clouds dotted over a bustling Delhi.
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A sky full of twinkling stars is perhaps one of the earliest fascinations of human race. It is not difficult to imagine the first men, women, and children—who appeared approximately 3 million years ago—looking up in wonder with the setting of the sun and beginning to see guiding lights in the sky.
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The exhibition stages a structural intervention within a region long shaped by layered violences and oceanic crossings, treating the body as a relational field. Mahbubani, whose great-grandparents were forced to migrate from Sindh following Partition, places her own body within this terrain.
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The South Asian country of Bangladesh is in the throes of political change. In July 2024, commonly called the July Revolution, a student, Gen Z-led, pro-democracy mass movement resulted in ousting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Unique, limited editioned and handcrafted affordable artworks by eminent artists exclusively commissioned for TAKE on Art.
Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Manu Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Manu Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Manu Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Manu Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Manu Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Madhvi Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Madhvi Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Madhvi Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Madhvi Parekh, 2025
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Untitled, Acrylic on Canson paper in the form of a paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled by Madhvi Parekh, 2025
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The Calculation of Fortune, Joss paper and Charcoal on Canson paper-pulp book cast sculpture, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Calculation of Fortune by Himali Singh Soin, 2026
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The Story Which You Have Written, Bronze, 5 x 11 x 4 inches, The Story Which You Have Written by G R Iranna, 2023
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Lingam Lamp, Sculpture Cast aluminium, toggle switch cast in aluminium, Edition of 25, 10 x 7.25 x 14 inches, Lingam Lamp by Ashiesh Shah, 2020
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Untitled , Hand–painting on Papier Mache, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Hand-painted book object by Ganesh Haloi, 2021
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Uncalendar Unever, Mixed media work with embossed print, hand and pin drawing on paper, Series of 100, each one is unique and signed, 17 x 20 inches, Uncalendar Unever by Mithu Sen, 2023
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My Bonsai Tiger, Stainless Steel, 264.4 mm x 306.6 mm x 1.5 mm, Limited edition of 35 , My Bonsai Tiger by Rekha Rodwittiya, 2022
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Untitled, Mirror Acrylic, Limited edition of of 50, 13 x 9.2 inches, Untitled by Shilpa Gupta, 2022
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Talisman (Twin-1), Digital collage printed on rice paper (100 GSM), with wooden boxes for encasing Limited edition of 10, each numbered and signed, 9 x 9.4 cm (h x w), length of spread out 514.5 cm, the attached wooden support covers 2 cm, outer box: 10.4 x 12.4 x 6 cm (h x w x d), A digital collage accordion format book named ‘Talisman’, Second edition, 2022
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Re[construction], Brass ghungroos (trinkets) and steel, 14x 8 x 8 inches, A series of unique sculptures made of brass ghungroos (trinkets) and steel by Vibha Galhotra, 2022
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Reordered Records: Amalgamation as sculpture (2), Biodegradable polylactic acid, Limited edition of 10, 21 x 16 x 12 inches, Editioned sculptures made of biodegradable polylactic acid by Ayesha Singh, 2025
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Drop, Unbleached cotton painted with acrylic paints, aluminium wire, Limited series of 35, 6 x 3 inches approx., wire: 38 inches approx., outer acrylic box: 6.5 x 6.5 x 8.75 inches, A series of soft fabric sculptures by Dhruvi Acharya, 2022
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Untitled, Paper mache and acrylic paint Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Untitled, 2016
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Table Lamp, Mixed Media Unique Series of 12, 20 inches (lamp shade 7 x 12 inches, stand: 12 x 9 inches), Table Lamp, 2011
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Painted Palettes, Acrylic on palette (MFD board) Series of 10, , Painted Palettes, 2012
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Museum Bhavan, Nine individual ‘museums’ in book form in a handmade box , 3.7 x 5.5 inches , Museum Bhavan, 2017
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Untitled, Etching on copper and carved mahogany wood Edition of 50, 12 x 10 inches, Untitled, 2009
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Stretched Body Series, Watercolour on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Stretched Body Series, 2014
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Untitled, Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled, 2014
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Untitled , Collage, watercolour, graphite on paper mache Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, Untitled , 2014
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Torso, Hand gilded on polyester resin fiber Exclusive Edition of 30, 9 inches, Torso by G. Ravinder Reddy, 2017-2018
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Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What?, Acrylic and decoup acrylic Limited Edition of 50, 11.5 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches, Two Thousand Three Hundred Grams of What? by Raqs Media Collective, 2013
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The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs, Giclee Print, 5.5 x 8 inches each, The Popular Series, Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs by Pushpamala N and Clare Arni, 2000-2004
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, Single book in metal Editions of 50, 8.6 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Shilpa Gupta, 2011
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The Book of Sand – II, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016
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The Book of Sand – I, Watercolour and marble dust on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book, 11 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches, The Book of Sand Series by Atul Dodiya, 2016
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Pink elephant in bathtub, Digital print on archival paper Edition of 50, 5 x 7 inches, Pink Anubhav Highres by Manjunath Kamath, 2011
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Matchbox, Digitally printed matchboxes, 15 x 15 inches , Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2018
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Forbidden Stories, Paper Mache and acrylic paint on arches paper-pulp book cast sculpture Hand-painted Unique Book , 11 x 11 x 2 inches, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2016
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Anti-clock, Mixed media (water colour on hand-made sheet, velvet etc.), Sizes vary, Series of unique pieces signed by the artist , 2011
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Tract, Visual book with 100 images, 1200 gsm, natural evolution hard bound Limited Editions of 100, 12 x 17 inches, A photo book that encapsulates the collapse of ecological terrain to advance the multitude of urban life.,
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