Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2024: Bikaner House, New Delhi

Gathered for a democratic and diverse audience, our curation includes works across mediums,with a focus on painting and photography,ushering in reflection and discourse on topical narratives growing out of contemporary South Asian culture. Some of the works on display will include installation works by Anita Dube, activating text and the gaze that turns upon them as sites of resistance; portraits by Faiza Butt layered with multi-cultural, art historical and technological inspirations as seen from an autobiographical lens; photographs of protest by queer communities in London shot in the 1980s by Sunil Gupta; drawings by Jasmine Nilani Joseph elaborating on ideas of property, ancestry and displacement; poetic explorations of the human condition in one’s relationship to self, time and place in paintings by Zaam Arif; the complexity of intimacy in inter-personal relationships in a suite of recent drawings by Sudhir Patwardhan; and mixed media collage works byShailesh B.R. that form a repository of observations, moods and imaginations through objects, elements and landscapes–among others.