2025
Isotropical Futures
Isotropical Futures explores ecological and social survival through the lens of deeply personal and politically conscious artistic practices of Asif Imran, Avni Bansal, David Malaker, Geetanjali Bayan, Harmeet Rattan, Moumita Basak, Sitikanta Samantsinghar, Satadru Sovan, and Unnikrishnan C. Borrowing from the scientific principle where unstable systems tend toward isotropy - a state of equilibrium - this exhibition challenges the illusion of “diversity” as a solution for ecological collapse, instead proposing a radical rethinking of collectivity, homogenization, and solidarity - not in erasure of difference, but in alignment with nature’s interdependence.
Drawing from eco-social theory and lived experience, the artists in this exhibition reflect how environmental degradation disproportionately affects marginalized communities - minorities, Indigenous peoples, and the economically disenfranchised - and how identity can both resist and be co-opted by extractive systems. In this attempt, Isotropical Futures reclaims homogenization not as an oppressive force, but as a potential condition for planetary survival, asking if a shared ecological subjectivity - grounded in care, mutual vulnerability, and interconnection can emerge in place of individualism and capitalistic logic.
Here, nature is not a backdrop but collaborator, ancestor, and witness. The artists bring forward practices rooted in community, lineage, and land, resisting capitalist narratives of extraction and progress. Isotropical Futures doesn’t seek utopia but it seeks alignment: where grief and growth, identity and ecology, resistance and care exist not in binaries, but in entangled, transformative proximity. This exhibition is not just a protest - it is a proposition: toward a just, shared future where survival is collective, and conservation is cultural.
Curated by Yash Vikram
(Friday, June 13 to Thursday, July 10)
INSTINCT
A Solo show by Anwar
The journey of an artist is one of truth. A surrender to a fundamental instinct, a guidance coming from a realm unknown, a knowledge of expression passed down through the ages. Anwar Khan, in his practice of about 40 years, has allowed this inherent purpose to overshadow all other material identities.
Expanding into newer mediums and techniques in a large-scale manner, such as wood, pyrography, ceramic, installations, he continues along his evolution in this new series, breaking free from a familiar rhythm and creating a new tune altogether. While the context of the work remains the same, the process has become deeper and more nuanced. His art, inspired by the primordial elements of nature and historical remnants of civilization, has now turned itself into something sacred. The shapes, the shades, the glistening of gold and silver, the vibrant threads tying it all together; one cannot help but experience a deep silence in the presence of his creations. The reverence the works call for are a result of his own mental discipline and faith. As a life-long student of his guru J. Swaminathan, he has stayed committed to the duty of an artist with the soul of a sufi.
The artist creates that which creation itself makes him. Rooted in mysticism, an ancient and esoteric wisdom, Anwar’s art is a cultural find. Like a lost relic it embodies the past, present and future, questioning what we consider to be contemporary, channelizing the instinct of centuries.
Sanjana Shah
(Tuesday, March 18 to Sunday, April 27)
Brain Rot - The Life You Live?
A Solo show by Viraj Khanna
Art is a reflection of society. The cultural context of our world seeps into everything we associate meaning with. Viraj Khanna explores the lives of his contemporaries around him, creating art that inspires a social commentary. Fundamentally satirical in nature, his art, be it textile or sculpture, is dramatic and absurdist. Through this exhibition he creates a series of exaggerated sculptural works that question the way
we spend our time and observes the lifestyle of the current generation he is a part of. Vibrantly detailed, each fibre glass sculpture is a narrative on the daily digital routine that dominates our world. Ideas of the psychological impact of technology and especially the overconsumption of low value content are explored. This is extremely relevant today as “Brain Rot” has been termed the word of the year by Oxford for 2024. He wants viewers to connect with the figures depicted and also reflect on the question "The Life You Live?" in their own individual contexts.
Sanjana Shah
(Thursday, January 9 to Saturday, February 15)