India Art Fair 2026

DescriptionThis curation presents synergy between four artists with merging practices all focused on the themes of de-layering and minimising in order to re-build a self-reflective narrative that promotes relatability and connection with the viewer. Isha Pimpalkhare, Kisalay Vora, Harshit Bondre and Yusuf – working from different places, with distinctive mind spaces and intellectual incentives, come to the same point of finding meaning through the undoing of their material. The formlessness builds a new form.

Pimpalkhare cuts and burns her textile work and then re-stitches them together in order to show the fragile and fragmented nature of the self in the scheme of universality, a self that only reaches wholeness in the acceptance of its imperfect form. Vora precariously wraps a network of symbolic threads around board pins on his vast canvases, each pin treated uniquely, reflecting upon the connections in life that may be short-lasting but yet hold holistic value at the point of its experience. Bondre explores the concept of a fourth dimension where space and time have a mystical interplay. His mixed media art deconstructs the shapes and shadows that we normally perceive in order to introduce this new way of looking which he terms ‘the life of the mind’. Lastly, Yusuf creates dichotomously orderly yet disorganised forms, using inked linearity in his technique while keeping the overarching composition abstract in its form – depicting the fundamentally chaotic and ephemeral nature of matter.

Each work is fluid, filled with energy, unbecoming as it is being viewed. Yet, each work comes together again, synchronised in its anarchy, strong in its vulnerability. The fundamental search of these artists begins with unravelling, a destruction that ends with creation, leaving space for wonder, and ultimately, for hope, in all of us. for your section.