Mapping a Memory

Sujata Bajaj on the cosmos to explore infinity of deep space

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

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. Her video Rituals for a Displaced Land-Body, positioned as a curatorial footnote, renders self-making as lived practice, her body functioning as an intergenerational vessel. In foregrounding her displacement, she shifts the traditional notion of the curator. By reframing herself as organizer, she diffuses curatorial authority while holding space for vulnerability to circulate. The stakes of auto-narration return to her own body. The curator becomes an implicated presence rather than an external mediator.

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

The Evolution of a Woman: Dhruvi Acharya

A Return to the Elements

A Bridge is built from Two Sides: Far Reaching Earth, Far Extending Sky, Spread like a Mat, Covered like a Bowl

In a conversation between Korram and Rahee Punyashloka, the curator of exhibition, the former remarks that guns, whether toys or weapons in the hands of guards, are part of daily life in Bastar. During elections, festivals and other such large gatherings, the presence of armed personnel is naturalised under the name of security. The effect is to position violence not at the periphery but at the centre of experience, where it becomes impossible to separate civic, ritual or recreational activities from the shadow of militarisation. In particular, these sculptures  highlight the speed of modern forms of violence and deforestation, such as automatic weapons, heavy machinery for logging and armed jeeps used by hunters.

Fragile worlds

Ravikumar Kashi’s ‘Fragile Worlds’ at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru, evokes the permeability of form, memory, and meaning. Through delicate, net-like sculptures and poetic explorations of language, the exhibition invites viewers into a tactile, immersive meditation on fragility, interconnectedness, and the porous edges of self and society.

Visceral Realities: Experiencing the Works of Jogen Chowdhury

This review by Dr. Aranya Bhowmik explores In Celebration: Jogen Chowdhury at Art Exposure Gallery, Kolkata. Curated by Soumik Nandy Majumdar, the exhibition traces Chowdhury’s evolving visual language—spanning refugee memories, surreal dreamscapes, and politically charged figures—revealing a deeply personal modernism marked by psychological depth, empathy, and cultural rootedness.

The Posthuman In Heaven (And That Other Place)

A Review of Waswo X Waswo's show Heaven (And That Other Place), held during 10 October - 17 November, 2024 at GALERIE ISA, Mumbai.