For cultural theorist and art critic Nancy Adajania, curating The Earth's Heart, Torn Out, a Navjot Altaf retrospective was as if she had been "working towards the moment for almost 20 years." Having written about the noted painter, sculptor, installation artist and filmmaker's works since the late '90s, Adajania's association with Altaf blossomed into a friendship of which studio visits, discussions and debates became an integral part.

Today, the artist and the curator will come together for a walkthrough of the retrospective, which opened earlier this month at the National Gallery of Modern Art. "Navjot strongly embodies the feminist lineage of art-making and although we do not belong to the same generation, we have been informed by the same Marxist and feminist literature. So in a way, we represent intersecting worldviews," says Adajania.