Gunjan Kumar & Mahwish Chishty: The Sindhu Project: Enigma of Roots
鈥淭he Sindhu Project: An Enigma of Roots welcomes you to immerse yourself in the embedded histories of the Sindhu (Indus) river basin reflected through the artworks of Mahwish Chishty and Gunjan Kumar. Their in-situ archaeological site visits and primary research through archival imagery and resources gathered over time, reflect the shared history of the South Asian subcontinent.
Cartography and mark-making are your overarching introductions to this exhibition, where time is reimagined as a living component that elevates preserving our collective intangible cultural heritage. Kumar engaged with turmeric, clay, soil, hand woven cotton, as material evidenced more than 5000 years ago at Indus Valley Civilization sites of Dholavira, Lothal and Sanghol in India. In the same vein, Chishty references motifs from, but not limited to, the Taxila Valley in Gandhara, Pakistan from more than 2500 years ago. Layering of time with historical data of topography and printmaking technique of ink rubbing by Chishty and mark making with pottery shards on mulberry paper by Kumar encapsulates their homage to scribes, potters, writers, and everyday lives that existed in the same region.
With this exhibition, location-based explorations from Chicago to Lahore find their Indian iteration here at Gallery Exhibit320, New Delhi. To understand more, Chishty, Kumar, and I have had countless conversations together and separately which are reflected in my curatorial notes across the exhibition. The Sindhu Project has energized the voice of the Indus riverine landscape at a crucial time where shared cultural connections need to be remembered, forged anew, and fostered for the future. The exhibition successfully does all three and more, as it invites you to think about how that very history is your past, your present, and that it lives through you. Everyday.鈥�
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鈥淭he Sindhu Project: An Enigma of Roots welcomes you to immerse yourself in the embedded histories of the Sindhu (Indus) river basin reflected through the artworks of Mahwish Chishty and Gunjan Kumar. Their in-situ archaeological site visits and primary research through archival imagery and resources gathered over time, reflect the shared history of the South Asian subcontinent.
Cartography and mark-making are your overarching introductions to this exhibition, where time is reimagined as a living component that elevates preserving our collective intangible cultural heritage. Kumar engaged with turmeric, clay, soil, hand woven cotton, as material evidenced more than 5000 years ago at Indus Valley Civilization sites of Dholavira, Lothal and Sanghol in India. In the same vein, Chishty references motifs from, but not limited to, the Taxila Valley in Gandhara, Pakistan from more than 2500 years ago. Layering of time with historical data of topography and printmaking technique of ink rubbing by Chishty and mark making with pottery shards on mulberry paper by Kumar encapsulates their homage to scribes, potters, writers, and everyday lives that existed in the same region.
With this exhibition, location-based explorations from Chicago to Lahore find their Indian iteration here at Gallery Exhibit320, New Delhi. To understand more, Chishty, Kumar, and I have had countless conversations together and separately which are reflected in my curatorial notes across the exhibition. The Sindhu Project has energized the voice of the Indus riverine landscape at a crucial time where shared cultural connections need to be remembered, forged anew, and fostered for the future. The exhibition successfully does all three and more, as it invites you to think about how that very history is your past, your present, and that it lives through you. Everyday.鈥�
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