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The Body in Agreement
Yardena Kurulkar 25 Oct - 21 Dec 2024 A series of etchings in Yardena Kurulkar’s exhibition The Body in Agreement, including one that has given its title to the show, were created from impressions left by leaves, twigs, and weeds the artist gathered from the Jewish cemetery in Chinchpokli. It is oddly appropriate for art of such lyricism... Read more -
To kill a bully with kindness
Chemould CoLab | Gurjeet Singh 12 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Aksar shabd sui ke jaise chub jate hai. Words have power — so often they ‘stab like needles’. Throughout his life, Gurjeet Singh has witnessed heinous threats and queerphobic gaalis being thrown at those who defy heteronormative archetypes. Reflecting further upon related news headlines, social media slander, and anecdotes recounted... Read more
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Raised Eyebrow | Bikaner House
Anant Joshi 22 - 28 Nov 2024 Viewing room After many years we return to Delhi with a solo exhibition of our artist Anant Joshi . ‘Raised Eyebrow’ brings together his works - sculptures, paintings and light boxes - that address India’s current political and social state, cutting through all the political propaganda Previewing from 6:30-9pm on... Read more -
Biophilia
Gigi Scaria 12 Sep - 17 Oct 2024 During the lockdown, we were inundated with images of dolphins dancing in the waters of the Bosporus; an unimaginably large number of flamingos roosting and breeding in the Talawe wetlands in Nerul; a puma roaming the deserted streets of Santiago. Nature did not merely make its presence felt. It sang,... Read more -
Mind Echo
Group Show with Space Studio Baroda 12 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Ahalya Rajendran | Akshata Mokashi | Deena Pindoria | Gurjeet Singh | Harman Taneja | Kalpana Vishwas | Mayadhar Sahu | Sashikanth Thavudoz Chemould CoLab and Space Studio present their first collaborative group exhibition, featuring eight alumni from the Space Studio residency programme. The exhibition explores the mind and body... Read more -
In the making: Drawing, Refining, Revising
Group Show 2 Aug - 3 Sep 2024 In the Making: Drawing, Refining, Revising is a group exhibition where we have brought together 15 artists from the gallery to whom drawing is the essence of studio life: a sketchbook, life studies, spot drawings, artist doodles are the archival repository within a studio practice. From these emerge larger projects... Read more -
KAARAWAAN AND OTHER STORIES
Gulammohammed Sheikh 6 Apr - 31 May 2024 Gulammohammed Sheikh is an artist, a writer, and a historian all rolled into one. These three aspects have had different origins but have entered into a fruitful conversation over the years and have jointly shaped his work. The four paintings he contributed to the exhibition Place for People (1981) marked... Read more -
Drawing Dreaming
Pallavi Sen | Chemould CoLab 14 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Pallavi Sen’s paintings are perhaps best characterized as a kind of hard-edge watercolor ; the term seems almost oxymoronic, unlikely. She uses watercolor against itself: where, in the watercolor works of our collective imagination, pigment should run, or drop, or flow across its substrate, she has corralled it, disciplined it.... Read more -
An Eye Inside
Jayeeta Chatterjee 22 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 Viewing Room An Eye Inside presents Jayeeta Chatterjee’s journey from an interest in interiors and architecture to her documentation of the domestic feminine politics. This evolution has been swift and serendipitous and reflected in this exhibition that combines earlier works of coloured woodcut prints and a new body of work... Read more -
Nakhra: Towards a sacred sensuality
Chemould CoLab | Kuldeep Singh 11 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 You hear Kuldeep before you see him. The silvery hum of the tanpura filling the room is broken only by the rustle of the ghungroos on his ankle, all part of an elaborate riyaaz — or practice — that moves from the terrazzo floor to the canvas in one sweeping... Read more -
Raised Eyebrow
Anant Joshi 11 Jan - 14 Feb 2024 Sculpture Anant Joshi is a newspaper devourer. With the information surfeit one gets today through all the various sources, the daily news from hard copy papers is the primary “feeder” to Joshi’s art practice. The artist comes upon an almost comic episode of a common citizen from Madhya Pradesh who... Read more -
floor/wall
Chemould CoLab | Anirudh Shaktawat 24 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Anirudh Shaktwat’s practice is based in the Southern Aravalli ranges of Rajasthan where he lives and works. This is an area heavily mined due to its rich mineral content. It is also home to late-medieval architectural sites of interest. The region is one in which many histories collide – natural,... Read more -
Part 2 - Futuring | CheMoulding: Framing Future Archives
Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana | 60 Years of Gallery Chemould 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Futurists actively view the present world as a window to possible future outcomes. By this definition, we are all futurists. However, in reality, actively viewing the present means to confront the timeless truths which outlast us — love, grief and loss, a sense of belonging and comfort (or lack thereof),... Read more -
Remembering
60 Years of Gallery Chemould | Group Show 31 Oct - 5 Nov 2023 Adi Davierwala | Akbar Padamsee | Ambadas | Bhupen Khakhar | Hema Upadhyay | Homi Patel | J Swaminathan | Janghar Singh Shyam | Jehangir Sabavala | Jivya Soma Mashe | KH Ara | Krishen Khanna | Krishna Reddy | Mehlli Gobhai | MF Husain | Nasreen Mohamedi | Prabhakar... Read more -
Part 1: Framing | CheMoulding: Framing Future Archives
Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana | 60 Years of Gallery Chemould 15 Sep - 22 Oct 2023 Anant Joshi, Archana Hande, Atul Dodiya, Bhuvanesh Gowda, Desmond Lazaro, Dhruvi Acharya, Gigi Scaria, Jitish Kallat, Madhvi Subrahmanian, Meera Devidayal, Mithu Sen, NS Harsha, Ram Rahman, Ritesh Meshram, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Sheetal Gattani, Tanujaa Rane, Varunika Saraf and Vivan Sundaram “Part 1 - Framing grounds us in the historical context of... Read more -
Reclaiming the Inner Space
Chemoulding: 60 Years of Gallery Chemould | Gallery Maskara 15 Sep - 22 Oct 2023 This three-dimensional, wall-mounted work features a ‘herd’ of approximately 1400 hand-carved wooden elephants that appear to roam a plain made from recycled cardboard packaging, flattened and attached to acrylic mirror. While the elephants refer to the ornaments that one might find in Indian souvenir shops, they also recall the elephant... Read more -
Continuum (after Jitish Kallat)
60 Years of Gallery Chemould | Group Show 14 Sep - 18 Nov 2023 To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Chemould Prescott Road, we are delighted to present an exhibition titled 'Continuum' (after by Jitish Kallat) featuring 10 emerging Indian artists, opening on Thursday, 14th September 2023 at Chemould CoLab. The artworks here encompass several types of media, ranging painting, ceramics, photography, textile, metal,... Read more -
Traces of Place
Group Show 13 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 How does a place influence our emotions and behaviour? What are the various experiences that two people can have of the same place? And can a place be reimagined to modulate our perception of its meaning and purpose? By asking these questions, you have become a psychogeographer. This mindset challenges... Read more -
Do They See The Same Skies As We Do?
Chemould CoLab | Tarini Sethi 9 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 Humans and gods. Animals and mythological beasts. The boundary between reality and fantasy blurs in these future worlds where leisure and introspection reign supreme. Created in direct response to the personal, political, social and ecological anxieties of the day, here artist Tarini Sethi restores balance to human relationships with each... Read more -
Quieter Than Silence - compilation of Short Stories
Shakuntala Kulkarni 9 Mar - 6 May 2023 DRAWING OUT, DRAWING IN Human bodies take on peculiar forms in Shakuntala Kulkarni's drawings. Costumes and armour become fused with the body giving them bizarre appearances, and when unclothed, the figures assume convoluted and awkward postures. The images are mostly of women, for the overarching preoccupation of Kulkarni’s art has... Read more -
Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present
7 Feb - 11 Jun 2023 We are pleased to present the works of Anju Dodiya, Archana Hande, Lavanaya Mani, Mithu Sen, Nilima Sheikh, Reena Saini Kallat, Varunika Saraf and Vivan Sundaram at the Sharjah Biennial 15. Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial... Read more -
Birth of Forgiveness
Chemould CoLab | Rithika Pandey 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 For Rithika Pandey’s first solo show in India she brings us nine tableaus: paintings in pursuit of healing and transformation. Compared to previous bodies of work, Birth of Forgiveness displays colour palettes that have been subdued and compositions that have been scrupulously pared back. The stage we now stand before... Read more -
Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022
Atul Dodiya 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Drawing from popular Indian cinema, Atul Dodiya creates paintings populated by iconic characters in his signature realistic style. This is not the first time Dodiya has painted from cinema, and in this latest series Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022, he returns to the theme... Read more -
Otherwhile
Jitish Kallat 4 Dec 2022 - 4 Jan 2023 Chemould Prescott Road is proud to present Jitish Kallat’s solo exhibition Otherwhile, twenty-five years since his debut solo at the gallery in 1997. To commemorate this extraordinary moment, the gallery is opening the exhibition on that very date, the 4th of December 2022. Otherwhile is an assembly of various themes... Read more -
This Is What It's Like To Be Fabulous
Chemould CoLab | Gurjeet Singh 10 Nov - 30 Dec 2022 Visit the exhibition at Chemould CoLab, 2nd Floor, Sugra Manzil, BEST Marg, Colaba, Mumbai Look at us! Patchworked and embroidered into existence, ready to dance our way out of this gallery. Aren’t we bigger than beauty? Don’t judge us like you would any other inanimate work of art. We’re not... Read more -
Documenta Indica
Pushpamala N 3 - 26 Nov 2022 Pushpamala, well known for her conceptual practice in performance photography and video, has been making sculptures lately. She rekindles the artisanal practice of her earlier training as a sculptor to make discursive objects in the form of documents, extending her interest in 19 th century subjects like ethnography and anthropometry... Read more -
Photo Studio
Ketaki Sheth | In Collaboration with PHOTOINK 17 Sep - 20 Oct 2022 Chemould Prescott Road in collaboration with PHOTOINK is pleased to announce Ketaki Sheth’s solo exhibition of colour photographs, Photo Studio. She has been photographing for four decades and until 2014 was a committed analogue photographer who used black and white film. Photo Studio marks her extraordinary transition to colour using... Read more -
Hearts on Fire — Reflections on Parsi photography: past, present and future
Chemould CoLab | Group Show 8 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 Curated by Sarica Robyn Balsari Aaran Patel | Avinash Jai Singh | Bindi Sheth | Divya Cowasji | Farzin Adenwalla | Hemant Chaturvedi | Iyanah Bativala | Jyoti Bhatt | Perin Pudumjee Coyaji | Porus Vimadalal | Sooni Taraporevala | Shantanu Das | Sunhil Sippy Showcases by Shreas Pardiwalla, Yohan... Read more -
Modus Operandi III: Together Alone
Group Show 11 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 The premise of Modus Operandi began and continues with an exhibition of Chemould's roster of artists - every iteration presents us an opportunity to exhibit them under one roof, in conversation with each other. The first iteration focused on process, the second presented the artist’s studio, and now for the... Read more -
Dismantling Building: A Kit of Parts
Samira Rathod Design Atelier 30 Jun - 2 Aug 2022 Samira Rathod’s ‘Dismantling Building = A Kit of Parts’ is an act of excavation. Through processes of distillation that analyse buildings designed in her studio, the attempt is to discover the fundamental unit of architecture, an ’ur’ architecture- the earliest, primitive unit. This is a process to uncover the phoneme... Read more -
Conversations on Tomorrow
Sadie Coles HQ, London 11 May - 18 Jun 2022 'What comes after reason?' Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung asked last year.1 By addressing a strain of 'reason' - a rational, canonizing, cerebral, and intoxicating form of thought prescribed by the West - Ndikung was adumbrating his intellectual resistance. In art, 'reason' might suggest submission to the pervading institutional structures, and... Read more -
Remains of waste
Chemould CoLab x BODICE x India Art Fair 30 Apr - 7 May 2022 With an aim to craft a dialogue between a garment and its wearer, every Bodice piece is given movement and character through thoughtful details; something that starts from the make of the fabric itself. But what happens when the fabric is isolated from the clothing, left bare in its elemental... Read more -
Epilogue for Light
Tanujaa Rane 7 Apr - 21 May 2022 Light streams across Tanujaa Rane’s work. From the etched lines behind the Moth and the Monarch butterfly in Transfiguration/ Metamorphosis, rays extend into the flight paths of one hundred Cicadas and to the Damsel Fly Long, which gravitates towards the recognisable abstract phases of an illuminated moon. Animals, a recurring... Read more -
New Media Focus
Pushpamala N & Gigi Scaria | SOUTH SOUTH Veza 02 31 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 SOUTH SOUTH’s second edition of VEZA focussed on digital art and the remarkable possibilities of new media, as well as our core activity of facilitating new connections within the cultural ecosystems across the Global South and beyond. Galleries from 25 cities spread across five continents came together to present a... Read more -
Eccentric Structures / Intimate Worlds
Chemould CoLab | Vinita Mungi 10 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Celebrating the exuberance of life, Vinita Mungi’s sculptures manifest as a series of biotic playgrounds. Their surfaces – meticulously glazed and often coated with candy-coloured slips –feature soft curves, folds, and asymmetrical forms that are inspired equally by limitless patterns in nature, socio-political concerns and formal visual enquiry. Mungi renders... Read more -
Cosmos
Desmond Lazaro 10 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Radical Homelessness: On Desmond Lazaro’s Recent Works Desmond Lazaro’s art has often been situated in a history of diasporic experience spanning the colonial and postcolonial eras. The multiple geographical and cultural displacements in which his family has participated, across generations, would seem to support this choice ofexplanatory framework. What has... Read more -
Interference
Anant Joshi | In-Touch Edition VII 1 Feb - 30 Apr 2022 Anant Joshi invents a circus of the past: forms that populate his work act out stories of political upheaval and social turmoil in the country. He plunges us into this troubled world with the satire of a semi-cartoonist, semi-toymaker, and artist. Inhabiting multi-coloured interiors and boxed in by the edges... Read more -
Caput Mortuum
Varunika Saraf 25 Nov - 31 Dec 2021 How do we stop the exponential rise of violence? Is it still possible to dream of an egalitarian society? Can we find love and hope amidst hate? Will we be able to heal the festering sores that riddle our world? How long will we continue to remain silent? To speak... Read more -
new canvases
Sheetal Gattani 14 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Sheetal Gattani is a painter of uncertainty, of suspense, of adventure. Her canvases contain over twenty-five to thirty layers; employing an abstractionist language to invoke a rhythmical interplay of textures and colors, and go beyond to also feature subtle geometric or architectural reveries. She starts on a black acrylic ground,... Read more -
I draw, therefore I think
Mehlli Gobhai & Vivan Sundaram | SOUTH SOUTH 11 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 We are delighted to participate in SOUTH SOUTH’s first Curatorial Project titled I draw, therefore I think curated by Jitish Kallat. This drawing project is prompted by Charles Darwin’s 1837 sketch ‘Tree of Life’ in which he scribbled down a framework for his speculations in his first “transmutation notebook”. We... Read more -
Mehlli Gobhai: Epiphanies
A series of breakthrough moments 27 Jul - 18 Sep 2021 Curated by Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania Meherwan Minocher Gobhai (1931-2018), always known as Mehlli Gobhai, was one of India’s most distinguished and pathbreaking abstractionists. Educated at St Xavier’s College and the Government College of Law, Mumbai, the Royal College of Art, London, the Pratt Graphics Center and the Art... Read more -
Reimagining the object
Ritesh Meshram and Tallur LN | In-Touch Edition VI 28 May - 1 Jul 2021 Something curious happens when an ordinary object from everyday life enters Ritesh’s studio. Attempting to refashion familiar objects, he transforms their shape and function as he combines, bends, twists, crushes and detaches, to gives them a new life as a work of art. He begins by collecting utensils, surgical tools,... Read more -
Into the light
Prafull Davé 23 Apr - 27 Jun 2021 The collaboration between Prafull Davé and Chemould, that started in the 1960’s, finds its continuation coming full circle in an online virtual exhibition Into the light, at Chemould Prescott Road. Prafull Davé explores transpersonal realms: his compositions oscillate between dream states of knowing and not knowing, having no beginning or... Read more -
On|Site | Entry Only
Group show 3 - 9 Mar 2021 A collaborative project between four galleries at Bikaner House, New Delhi. Bikaner House, a former residence of the Maharaja of Bikaner in Rajasthan, retains its grand aura of a distinguished Edwardian neo-classical bungalow within the expanse of its 8 acres in Lutyens, Delhi. Ensconced within it are smaller rooms with... Read more -
SOUTH SOUTH VEZA
Group show 24 Feb - 2 Mar 2021 SOUTH SOUTH is an online community, an anthology, an archive and a resource for artists, galleries, curators and collectors invested in the Global South. In the often disputed battleground of global history writing and history making, showcasing one’s own history is not an easy task, nor is it a unilateral... Read more -
Somethings Are Always Burning
Aditi Singh 14 Jan - 31 Mar 2021 I stood once on a hill staring at an opposite hill that had thrust its face into mine. I gazed at it until dropping my eyes I saw with astonishment between me and it, a lake that I knew perfectly well was there. But it couldn’t be. There wasn’t room.... Read more -
Elusive Recesses
Dhruvi Acharya | In-Touch Edition V 16 Dec 2020 - 1 Mar 2021 These ink and watercolor works were made while in isolation during the global coronavirus pandemic. If the fear of the virus was not enough, almost on a daily basis we were confronted with news of political upheavals, unrest and protests in countries across the world, crimes against minorities and against... Read more -
Transfixed
Anusha Yadav 30 Nov - 31 Dec 2020 Transfixed is collaborative portrait series that is an ode to uniqueness in ideas of beauty and feminine expression. Manifested with volunteering individuals, the theatre of beauty, whether light to lavish, or dainty to dramatic, is a choice they exercise often, even if their bodies may or may not match up... Read more -
Game of Chance
Lavanya Mani | In-Touch Edition IV 22 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 Early versions of the board game ‘Snakes and ladders originated in India as ‘Gyan chaupar’ or ‘Game of knowledge’. Usually painted on cloth or paper, these boards were often religious and didactic, instructing its players in the paths of spiritual discipline. The board was designed on the theory of Karma... Read more -
In The Presence of Absence
Samira Rathod | In-Touch Edition III 17 Jul - 15 Sep 2020 Read more -
Breathing on Mirrors
Anju Dodiya 11 Jun - 30 Jul 2020 Venue : Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Breathing on Mirrors ...as if, in a monosyllabic conversation, or mimicking emoticons, I have confined these drawings to a minimal emotional theatre. Like the German poet Rilke insists, the protagonist lets everything happen to her: beauty and terror. The tension of the creative act... Read more -
Photo / Concept
Group show | In-Touch Edition II 5 Jun - 5 Jul 2020 Read more -
Out-site / Insight
Group Show | In touch Edition I 24 Apr - 23 Jul 2020 We approached our artists inquiring how they were doing in this time of isolation. Several of them are unable to make art - using their time to read, watch films, or make work that is a process between themselves and their drawing board. Others have shared works where they have... Read more -
Painting in the Time of Corona
Dhruvi Acharya 18 Apr - 18 May 2020 ALL WORKS ARE ON SALE. PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARDS CHARITY. As Dhruvi Acharya’s watercolour paintings go on sale, proceeds will go towards those who are severely affected during this pandemic. Mumbai-based artist Dhruvi Acharya, known for her psychologically complex paintings based on personal experiences and events, turned to watercolours to... Read more -
Don't ask me about colour
Mehlli Gobhai: A Retrospective 6 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 Venue: National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania Meherwan Minocher Gobhai (1931-2018), always known as Mehlli Gobhai, was one of India’s most distinguished and pathbreaking abstractionists. Educated at St Xavier’s College and the Government College of Law, Mumbai, the Royal College of Art, London,... Read more -
Terranum Nuncius
Jitish Kallat 10 - 21 Jan 2020 For ‘Covering Letter (Terranum Nuncius) [2019–20], Kallat draws from the two phonographic Golden Records that were hoisted onto the legendary Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched by NASA in 1977. Currently located over 13 billion miles away from Planet Earth, the contents of this ‘time capsule’ were assembled for... Read more -
Recent Life
N S Harsha 9 Jan - 20 Feb 2020 N.S. Harsha's work has a rarity; his gallery exhibitions are few and far between. Indeed his work is laboured, his process slow. The fact is that Harsha has a rigorous practice. Recent museum exhibitions, biennales have left a footprint from 2016 to 2019 from the Kochi Biennale, Japan, Sydney Biennale... Read more -
Blind Spots
Reena Saini Kallat 29 Nov - 28 Dec 2019 Reena Saini Kallat’s work is an extended and productive engagement with two starkly opposed conditions: schism and conflict on the one hand; and, on the other, hybridity and synthesis. This long-standing preoccupation emerges from the artist’s inheritance: her family background connects her to the historic trauma of the Partition. Over... Read more -
5 Artists, 5 Projects
Group show 10 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 Generationally and presently, women artists have always dominated the spectrum of artists that we exhibit; this was not necessarily the decided route to take, however the trajectory presented itself. In bringing these projects to the limelight, we assimilated 5 projects by 5 artists that have combined within this show -... Read more -
Woven Memoirs - A new kind of nature
Priya Ravish Mehra 5 Sep - 1 Oct 2019 At Chemould Prescott Road we feel honoured to be presenting works of the late Priya Ravish Mehra, who began as a weaver, but subsequently grew as an artist merging the integrity of her weaves into an abundance of materiality. Sewn with metaphorical meaning, aiming to restore general order, Priya Ravish... Read more -
Modus Operandi II
Group Show 18 Jul - 24 Aug 2019 Synonymous with the first edition of Modus Operandi, where we brought together over 25 Chemould artists and their unique artistic language in dialogue with each other through various mediums, we now look forward to deepening this introduction. Once again, Chemould Prescott Road opens it's doors to the younger art enthusiast... Read more -
Signs taken for Wonders
Lavanya Mani 14 Mar - 30 Apr 2019 At the beginning of the 21st century, and on the brink of an ecological catastrophe of global proportions, we appear to be on the threshold of a periodical rediscovering of the sense of wonder that the world appears to have lost. It is too early to speculate whether the return... Read more -
Seven Minutes of Blackmail
Atul Dodiya 17 Jan - 21 Feb 2019 This set of paintings explores Dodiya’s obsession with the medium of film, where his signature photographic painting style is often mistaken for photography. In this exhibition, he pays homage to the genius of Hitchcock, where Atul is seen recreating his legacy through the close watching of the Hitchcock film, Blackmail.... Read more -
Abhaya in the palm of our hand
Bijoy Jain 30 Nov 2018 - 3 Jan 2019 Art/Architecture or Architecture/Art: What comes before, what comes after is not a question that Bijoy Jain addresses and he has never felt the need to do so. His work as an architect has always been layered with artistic approaches: land art, conceptual practices, abstraction, expressionism, figuration, gestures, where form and... Read more -
So it goes
Yardena Kurulkar 22 Oct - 22 Nov 2018 Viewing art, like making it, is a private act, an intimate one. Particularly when it is about death. Viewing death, in life and in art, is again intensely personal, mostly individual. Or is it? Don’t we seem to give death- in life and in art-a public face? We place obituaries... Read more -
In the Womb of the Land
Ritesh Meshram 6 Sep - 11 Oct 2018 Metal echoes strength. The first impression when you view a piece of metal is that of strength; It’s characteristics, its resonance, it’s internal density and dexterity gives us an indication of its potency. Metal is sound; Metal resonates; it is an expression of strength. Concurrently, it is also an expression... Read more -
Modus Operandi
Group Show 13 Jul - 18 Aug 2018 This July, Chemould Prescott Road presents Modus Operandi, a show that has been devised by Shireen Gandhy and the Chemould team, brin ging together a large number of Chemould artists and showcasing their modes, methods and processes of art making . Borrowed from Latin, modus meaning “manner, method” and operand... Read more -
Water Has Memory
Meera Devidayal 17 Apr - 12 May 2018 My attempt has always been to turn the ‘found image’ into a visual metaphor, and charge it with new meaning. In this collection the trigger was — an office building surrounded by office buildings; the sea somewhere round the corner, unseen, suddenly appearing as a reflection in a window. As... Read more -
Juloos and Other Stories
Shakuntala Kulkarni 14 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 The film Juloos is a declaration of the vision that each and every person has equal rights and freedom as an individual, and, as part of a community. Within the space of this declaration Shakuntala Kulkarni has addressed her concern, the violation of the female body, in public and private... Read more -
UnMYthU
Mithu Sen 1 Feb - 3 Mar 2018 Chemould Prescott Road presents Mithu Sen’s solo show in India after eight years. The gallery will be converted into a (Con)Temporary Museum and this exhibition is a preview of an (un)certain future museum show. Five instructional museum pieces will be performed under legal contractual guidelines between the artist and each... Read more -
Smoke Out
Tallur LN 18 Dec 2017 - 18 Jan 2018 “When the water reaches the upper level, we follow the rats” Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months two rats could have over a million descendants. Philosophically, the rat is a connotation of the human mind. Our mind is always full of desires and is often selfish, just like... Read more -
Terrain: Carrying Across Leaving Behind
Nilima Sheikh 17 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 The exhibition Terrain : Carrying Across, Leaving Behind, consists of a single body of work: an 8 panel, retro verso, Casein tempera painting, enclosing an octagonal space. Inscribed in these panels are stories from folklore to present times that lend to each other new and cumulative language, and contexts. This... Read more -
Mapping Memory
Madhvi Subrahmanian 7 - 29 Sep 2017 With ecology in delicate balance today, Madhvi Subrahmanian has created a tactile experience where questions about the disconnect of contemporary times with its environment are brought forth. Her works are made of terracotta, stoneware, porcelain, gold and cowdung, which invite you to meander through this show, reconnecting with the most... Read more -
Access Time
Group show 9 - 23 Mar 2017 Curated by Devika Daulet-Singh Chemould Prescott, Mumbai is pleased to present a group exhibition of black & white photographs, Some Portraits curated by Devika Daulet Singh in collaboration with PHOTOINK. Drawn from the archives of Pablo Bartholomew, Richard Bartholomew, Madan Mahatta, Ram Rahman, Sadanand Menon, Ketaki Sheth and Sooni Taraporevala,... Read more -
fold / unfold
Sonia Khurana 20 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 Fold/unfold gathers different vignettes across time, that place the body in an oblique relation to diffused feminist aesthetics of the counter-spectacle and performative resistance. I have aligned the selection of artworks for ‘fold/unfold’ with my recent, extensive conversations with cultural theorist and visual analyst, Griselda Pollock. Both her recent essay... Read more -
Ōtah Prōtah
Bhuvanesh Gowda 9 Dec 2016 - 6 Jan 2017 The show featured a set of Bhuvanesh's recent sculptures made of discarded (and o< en decaying) pieces of wood salvaged from dismantled houses and elsewhere. Breathing new life into seemingly redundant objects, Bhuvanesh conceptually aBempts to reconnect the past with the present. In his skilled hands, old and worn out... Read more -
After the Fall
Dhruvi Acharya 14 Oct - 19 Nov 2016 Employing her subtle, dark and wry humour, Dhruvi Acharya’s new body of work explores the arduous emotional and psychological processes of reconstructing one’s self and returning to a purposeful life. The work exposes the numbness, the disbelief and the deafening screams in one’s head, where battles have to be fought... Read more -
46 Pillars
Sheetal Gatani 15 May - 30 Aug 2016 Chemould Prescott Road re-envisioned itself into an open studio as artist Sheetal Gattani created her site-specifiic installation titled 46 Pillars over the last three months. The gallery walls will also house her new body of drawings, White Grass, where white paper and charcoal found their way as layers upon layers... Read more -
The In-Coming Passengers
Desmond Lazaro 10 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 Desmond Lazaro was born into an Anglo Indian family in Leeds, England. His parents on the other hand migrated from Burma to Leeds in 1957 and Lazaro's great-grandfather hailed from Madras in the 1800s. When Desmond moved to India to do his MFA at the Faculty of Fine Arts in... Read more -
Sightings
Jitish Kallat 22 Feb - 1 Mar 2016 The exhibition Sightings brings together an assembly of conceptual and sensory propositions through a suite of drawings, sculptures, photo-pieces and video. Seen throughout the exhibition are the themes of time, sustenance, sleep, along with an interplay of scales and proximities, and evocations of the celestial; preoccupations that have recurred across... Read more -
I am a landscape painter
Archana Hande 3 Dec 2015 - 6 Jan 2016 Chemould Prescott Road is pleased to present I am Landscape Painter by Archana Hande. Hybridity. Exchange. Migration. These words coalesce around the human stories Archana Hande explores through mixed media in her ongoing show I am a Landscape Painter. A suite of photographs, videos, watercolours and textiles created as part... Read more -
The Ark
Gigi Scaria 22 Oct - 21 Nov 2015 An apocalypse is coming onto us; our world and the worlds before. According to Gigi Scaria, climate change and subsequent territorial disputes have the potential to tear the social fabric of humanity. His work intervenes at the juncture of this apocalypse as explores this fantastical Biblical devastation. As the steps... Read more
