Site-specific · 2023Main View
Entire gallery transformed; archival and living negotiated in folk rhythm inside museum white.
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KNMA Commission
Site-specific · Video · Found objects · 2023 — Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.
KNMA (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art) commission brought together two seemingly disparate worlds — the precision of modernist abstraction and the raw, embodied vocabulary of folk traditions. The installation occupies an entire gallery, transforming the white cube into a site of negotiation between the archival and the living.
Using found objects, video projections, and hand-painted panels, the work traces how artistic modernism in India has often sidelined vernacular practices. The installation reclaims space for the folk — not as decorative backdrop, but as a critical, active voice within contemporary art discourse.
Visitors move through a labyrinth of suspended textiles, projected archival footage, and sculptural interventions. The experience is intentionally disorienting — a reminder that the margins are not peripheral, but central to how we understand culture.
Site-specific · 2023
Installation viewInstallation View 1
Suspended textiles and projected archival footage in labyrinth sequence.
DetailDetail
Cloth worked by hand to hold the moving image; pigment and weave catching what the screen lets fall.
Installation viewInstallation View 2
Sculptural interventions reclaiming space for vernacular practice as critical voice.
Textile detailTextile Detail
Hand-painted panels tracing modernism's sidelining of folk, then returning it to center.
Video stillVideo Still
Three channels move across cloth — harvest time inside gallery time.
Overall viewOverall View
White cube softened into a field; margins shown as central to culture.