Curatorial Note

If Alwar Balasubramaniam starts from the abstractness of scriptural imagery to identify its incarnation in the concrete organic, Mrinalini Mukherjee and Karl Antao, as though in contradiction, find metaphoric lyricism through the physicality of the hybrid human figure, the three meet capturing the underlying connectedness and pervasiveness of things, In-between the two extremes, the other artists unfold a rich and varied cluster of manifestations that human coexistence with nature assumes in more specific regions and under many aspects. Throughout, there flows an intuition and a realisation of our vital togetherness. Whether it occurs peacefully or becomes disturbed, we cannot do without it.