Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2024 to highlight voices of South Asian artists

Delhi Contemporary Art Week DCAW is returning for its seventh edition at Bikaner House from August 31 to September 4 The sevenday art extravaganza will be home to some of the finest contemporary art voices from South AsiaSix Delhibased art galleries Blueprint12 Exhibit 320 Gallery Espace Latitude 28 Shrine Empire and Vadehra Art Gallery are showcasing a selection of works by established and emerging artists from India and other South Asian countries with each gallery bringing its unique curatorial vision to the eventAdditionally a group exhibition curated by Girish Shahane will feature artists from each participating gallery Titled lsquoA Bold Step Sidewaysrsquo it challenges traditional notions of art history and originality Embracing a generation of artists unencumbered by the anxieties of influence this exhibition showcases a diverse array of works that freely traverse styles and mediumsArt on displayBlueprint 12Blueprint 12 will be exhibiting works of artists including Divyesh Undaviya Meghana Gavireddygari Zoya Chaudhary Aravani Art Project and Anila Govindappa among othersExhibit 320Exhibit 320 will showcase contemporary art from India and the subcontinent creating a platform for new thoughts and ideas This year the emphasis of the exhibition space is on new media and its structures as a place for creative endeavour aesthetic exploration and furthering visual dialogue The artists whose works will be on display include Deena Pindoria Deepak Kumar Jayati Kaushik Kaushik Saha Kumaresan Selvaraj Priyantha Udagedara Gopi Gajwani Gunjan Kumar Rahul Kumar Sareena Khemka among othersGallery EspaceGallery Espace will showcase a varied collection of paintings drawings and sculptures by leading artists across generations and graphic mediumsA highlight of the presentation is a drawing installation by Soma Surovi Jannat lsquoTime without Birth and Deathrsquo a young artist from Dhaka Bangladesh The gallery will also showcase a new set of paintings by Barodabased Rashmimala Ravi Agarwalrsquos photographs of an abandoned office and Tanmoy Samantarsquos luminous canvases of liminal shapes Other exhibiting artists include Amit Ambalal Ishita Chakraborty Sharad Sonkusale Sheetal Gattani and Sonia Mehra ChawlaLatitude 28Continuing to spotlight emerging artists from the Global South Latitude 28 will reflect South Asias evolving contemporary art scene through a textile collection This exhibit features artists using weaving crochet embroidery Zardosi and Kantha techniques to manipulate fabric and integrate it with other art forms and texturesHighlights include Khadim Alis tapestry work influenced by his Afghan heritage debut artists at DCAW Veena Advani her mixed media paintings with hand embroidery AlQawi Nanavati infuses her late mothers belongings into her art creating a sense of mystery and deep contemplation and Viraj Khanna whose narrativebased embroidered works are focused on eyecatching moments shared on social media Inspirations from texture and form of Indian textile handicraft are evident in Sanket Viramgami and Shalina Vichitrarsquos works Sudipta Das transforms paper into sculpture or fabricOther artists whose work will be showcased include Ankush Safaya Anupama Alias Chandan Bez Baruah Farhat Ali Harisha Chennangod Harman Taneja Jahangir Asgar Jani Prajjwal Choudhury Shubham Kumar Sudipta Das Waswo X Waswo Yogesh Ramkrishna and Zahra YazdaniShrine EmpireShrine Empire will showcase the works of Hema Shironi and Natasha Das for the first time Both artists work with textile and through this medium they explore various contexts that relate to their personal histories politics of the region and sustainability Artist Amitava Das will be showing several of his recent works Other participating artists include Anoli Perera Arun Dev Awdhesh Tamrakar Divya Singh Sajan Mani Samanta Batra Mehta Sangita Maity Shruti Mahajan and Tayeba Begum LipiVadehra Art GalleryFeaturing an ensemble of exciting South Asian artists practising within the Subcontinent and beyond Vadehra Art Gallery will show works by Anita Dube Anju Dodiya Atul Bhalla Atul Dodiya Faiza Butt Gigi Scaria Jagannath Panda Jasmine Nilani Joseph Joya Mukerjee Logue Praneet Soi Sachin George Sebastian Shailesh B R Shilpa Gupta Sudhir Patwardhan Sunil Gupta Treibor Mawlong Zaam Arif and othersThe curation will include works across mediums with a focus on painting and photography ushering in reflection and discourse on topical narratives growing out of contemporary South Asian cultureSome of the works on display will include installation works by Anita Dube portraits by Faiza Butt photographs of protest by queer communities in London shot in the 1980s by Sunil Gupta drawings by Jasmine Nilani Joseph poetic explorations of the human condition in onersquos relationship to self time and place in paintings by Zaam Arif the complexity of intimacy in interpersonal relationships in a suite of recent drawings by Sudhir Patwardhan and mixed media collage works by Shailesh B R among othersDetailsWhat Curated exhibitions featuring 50 artists curated walkthroughs workshops talk sessionsWhen August 31 to September 4Where Bikaner House New DelhiCost Free entryWith inputs from IANSAlso ReadHead to a weekend of Hindustani classical music in Goa this August