When the Others Stares Back: Part I

Twigs to Creepers, 2018
Remaining Roots, 2019
Wild Grass, 2019
Regenerative Nature, 2018
Every Bit of Earth is a Bit of You - I, 2019
Every Bit of Earth is a Bit of You - II, 2019
From the Primordial Ooze I, 2018
From the Primordial Ooze IV, 2018
From the Primordial Ooze V, 2018
From the Primordial Ooze II, 2018
From the Primordial Ooze III, 2018
From the Primordial Ooze VI,  
Uncharted Terrains Crater Fluids, 2014
Vital to Life, Drifter & Wanderer III, 2021
Vital to Life, Drifter & Wanderer IV, 2021
Bhola, 2020
Mutton Street 1, 2018
Beadon Street, 2020
26-March to 7-June-2022

The exhibition brings together the works of four female artists who hail from Kolkata. Their composite and layered works essay an inter-generational conversation about synthesized contaminants that impel us, governing our lifestyles. Each artist stages an encounter with non-human actants - plankton, animals, plants - that are caught up in a helpless becoming at the hand of man. Ranging from melancholic to monstrous, these becomings warn us against landscapes to come, transformed beyond recognition and grown allergic to our existence as a species. Speculative or documentary, the works are rooted within urban environments that the artists came to inhabit, exposing these seemingly civilized spaces as nested sites of multi-species cohabitation and conflict. Seduced into an inhospitable territory, the viewer is fixed and surveyed by a gaze that is utterly alien. It is a gaze that is as impenetrable as it is unforgiving; a gaze that asks for accountability and pronounces judgement.