“I Have Been Moved to Find Beauty in Places of Deep Precarity”: In Conversation with Gauri Gill

One of India’s most important contemporary photographers, Gauri Gill is renowned for her deeply immersive and collaborative approach to image-making. Gill’s work is shaped by long-term engagements with rural, indigenous, marginalised and diasporic Indian communities. Through sustained interactions, she captures narratives of resilience, resistance and beauty, offering an intimate perspective on lives often overlooked. Her photographs sensitively examine the intersections of gender, caste, class and community, revealing the social structures that shape individual and collective agency. In her latest solo exhibition, The Village on the Highway, New Delhi’s Vadehra Art Gallery presents the most comprehensive showcase of this series to date. Opening today, 4 February 2025, as part of Defence Colony Gallery Night, the exhibition marks the first time this body of work is being shown in India. Ahead of the show’s opening, Something Curated’s Keshav Anand spoke with Gill.

4 February 2025