Mumbai, someone said, will never be completed. Even now, the city is constantly being rebuilt, reshaped, and reimagined. One look at the works on the display of DAG’s upcoming exhibition, Bombay Framed: People, Memory, Metropolis, and you realise this phenomenon is neither new nor recent. A prelude to the second edition of the travelling festival, The City As a Museum, Mumbai (it will open on March 7), the exhibition taps into works across the mediums of artworks, archival photographs, and memories to trace the journey of the metropolis from its early days as a coastal hamlet. The showcase also grows from a series of smaller capsule exhibitions hosted by DAG over the years.

Flora Fountain, Bombay, Baburao Sadwelkar (1928-2000), 1951