On Purpose
Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition by some of the most exciting names in contemporary Indian art and literature. The exhibition opens on Saturday, 27 May, at 11.30 am with a special preview event in collaboration with Platform Magazine. Writer and curator Anish Gawande will engage in interdisciplinary conversations around the writing process, the relationship between art and writing as well as the interpretive potential of art in public places, among other valuable insights, with writers and artists in attendance.
The exhibition includes artists Anju Dodiya, Atul Bhalla, Gigi Scaria, Jagannath Panda, K.M. Madhusudhanan, Praneet Soi, Ranbir Kaleka, Shrimanti Saha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sunil Gupta, Nalini Malani and Ashim Purkayastha and meaningful contributions by writers Jeet Thayil, Nonita Kalra, Shruti Kapur Malhotra, Meena Kandasamy, Janice Pariat, Manju Sara Rajan, Anindita Ghose, Akhil Katyal, Gayatri Rangachari Shah, Anish Gawande, Kabir Jhala and Shreya Ajmani alongside the powerful works, opening up the discourse of a white-cube space to interdisciplinary interventions.
Titled On Purpose, the exhibition features artworks across a range of topical themes such as self-identity, gender, socio-economics, the environment, public spaces, politics of the image, etc., to which a diverse group of young writers from across the country respond in an ekphrastic challenge 鈥� which refers to the rhetoric construction and interpretation of a visual impression, object or scene in the form of the written word. Often vivid and dramatic, ekphrastic writing offers detailed descriptions of forms of art either real or imagined, and in a more nuanced sense, connects personal ideology with collective structures.
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Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition by some of the most exciting names in contemporary Indian art and literature. The exhibition opens on Saturday, 27 May, at 11.30 am with a special preview event in collaboration with Platform Magazine. Writer and curator Anish Gawande will engage in interdisciplinary conversations around the writing process, the relationship between art and writing as well as the interpretive potential of art in public places, among other valuable insights, with writers and artists in attendance.
The exhibition includes artists Anju Dodiya, Atul Bhalla, Gigi Scaria, Jagannath Panda, K.M. Madhusudhanan, Praneet Soi, Ranbir Kaleka, Shrimanti Saha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sunil Gupta, Nalini Malani and Ashim Purkayastha and meaningful contributions by writers Jeet Thayil, Nonita Kalra, Shruti Kapur Malhotra, Meena Kandasamy, Janice Pariat, Manju Sara Rajan, Anindita Ghose, Akhil Katyal, Gayatri Rangachari Shah, Anish Gawande, Kabir Jhala and Shreya Ajmani alongside the powerful works, opening up the discourse of a white-cube space to interdisciplinary interventions.
Titled On Purpose, the exhibition features artworks across a range of topical themes such as self-identity, gender, socio-economics, the environment, public spaces, politics of the image, etc., to which a diverse group of young writers from across the country respond in an ekphrastic challenge 鈥� which refers to the rhetoric construction and interpretation of a visual impression, object or scene in the form of the written word. Often vivid and dramatic, ekphrastic writing offers detailed descriptions of forms of art either real or imagined, and in a more nuanced sense, connects personal ideology with collective structures.
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