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'Very Small Feelings' is co-produced by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and Samdani Art Foundation (SAF). It is the fourth exhibition under KNMA's multi-part, long-term program 'Young Artists of Our Times' which was initiated in 2019. First iteration of the exhibition was organised as part of Dhaka Art Summit 2023 (3 - 11 February).

Very Small Feelings (VSF) gently holds and hosts the figure of the child, and approaches childhood as a place that one can enter and exit at will. The exhibition gathers artists, child-artists and visitors to imagine and create environments, architectural spaces and a range of intensities that require exploration in their own terms through play, storytelling, participation and willful engagement. The exhibition seeks to encounter the eternal inner child who lives inside everyone, and binds us strongly to it. Interested in the spoken word, and the generative space of orality built through the telling and retelling of stories, it brings together forty-two projects ranging from new commissions, historical works, performances, books, personal and institutional archives, artist's creative prompts turned into installations, and many kinds of landscapes.

Nothing is older than a child. The adage is circuitous, expansive, like a labyrinth; it pushes one to find ways and meanings through it and makes one attentive to language, scale and selfhood of all things. VSF is speckled with artworks made by children, some with annotations indicating how to read, approach these drawings and the category of child-art, by artist-educator Devi Prasad. These drawings 鈥� from a three-year old鈥檚 scribblings to a fifteen-year old鈥檚 rendering of a summer afternoon in a village 鈥� are brilliantly expressive, intuitively alive and telling of how inseparable the self and the external world is for a child. With these drawings, 鈥榁ery Small Feelings鈥� flows into a much less rigid register of the senses, of the instinctive muscular movements of the body, of memory, nostalgia and longing, and towards a subjectivity without consciousness. VSF uses the saying 鈥楴othing is older than a child鈥� as a provocation to turn the museum into a playground and a creative space for intergenerational conversations.