Exploring the fusion of rural heritage with contemporary art, Nishchay Thakur's unique practice embodies cultural memory and sustainability amidst a rapidly changing landscape. Through his transformative use of organic materials and traditional techniques, Thakur's work offers a poetic reflection on the evolving relationship between agrarian society and modernity. This article focuses on the unique, one-of-a-kind…
The humans who are incessantly littering and throwing away their plastic bottles at the beach obviously don't want marine species to perish or the ocean to overflow into the city, but they litter unconsciously because they simply 'can' do so. The artist attempts to confront this collective unconscious practice by directly addressing the treatment of…
The times that we inhabit are a clear-cut demarcation of territorial and regimental operations. It is these lines,
sometimes invisible and sometimes made distinctly visible and at times deliberately blurred that announce the
subject position and subjecthood of an entity. Not just a living existence but also the ‘other’ that makes us aware of
power.…
A large part of our childood is made of stories, as are out personalities. They have the power to change the world and with that very essence, Jeff Hong creates his art. Jeff Hong is an animation and storyboard artist who works in Disney Studios. Based out of Los Angeles, Hong developed a series called…
“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of man’s attention and care.” ― Wendell Berry, The Hidden Wound.
Soghra Khurasani’s ongoing…
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
How do we define love? Is there a single answer to this or does the definition change with…
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Goa-based artist Sahil Naik’s solo project ‘All Is Water, and to…
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality…One can’t possess reality, one can possess images–one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.”
― Susan Sontag,
On Photography
After ‘The Writer’s Eye’ and ‘The Historian’s Eye’ William Dalrymple is once again flaunting his photographer persona in his ongoing exhibition titled, ‘The Traveller’s Eye’ at…
Has the pen or pencil dipped so deep in the blood of the human race as the needle?”
– Olive Schreiner
‘Bildungsroman (& Other Stories)’, presented by TARQ, Mumbai, is Areez Katki’s first solo exhibition in India that showcases the artist’s repertoire made over a duration of the past few years. The Parsi embroidery…
At the shore, the lines are drawn. Both sides are fearful and suddenly thrown together. The refugee looks towards the shore to begin a new life. I am here now. YOU WILL KNOW ME. But what will be the form, quality and course of this encounter? It is uncertain. -Tara Sabharwal
‘Waters Meet/ Sangam’ hosted…
“The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’” – BrendaHoward
Desee Art celebrates the PrideMonth with Soumya Sankar Bose’s critically acclaimed series of photographs, ‘Fool Moon on a Dark Night’.
‘The terms…
“…When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your…