Attend these art exhibitions by two young artists in Mumbai this week

Nurturing is feministIn her first solo show Dear Tereza at Art and Charlie mdash one that gallerist Ayesha Parikh calls their most ambitious exhibition yet mdash artist Saviya Lopes delves into a conversation about matrilineal culture womanhood and acts of resistance propelled by one question mdash ldquoWho gets to be called a nonfeministrdquo Lopes asksThe five years she spent documenting her grandmother mdash and the showrsquos eponymous muse Tereza mdash gave Lopes the chance to navigate thoughts that most of us might find all too familiar Illustrating these thoughts Lopes explains that women of past generations while adhering to certain patriarchal norms still grappled with creating safe spaces for themselves and their communities How can we disregard those acts that nurtured subsequent generations their new ideas and courage Through acts of resistance that include this nurturing 28yearold Lopes highlights care as an act of feminismLeft Exhibition views of Vessels of Care right To You I OweThe show is presented through 37 artworks including lightboxes sculptures drawings stitched on fabric installations and a comprehensive yet inprogress book Like the casts of the grandmotherrsquos and motherrsquos hands and the embroidered sketches of hands at work mdash cooking and stitching mdash demonstrate how women take care of their communities The spaces that held these acts in turn become a site of resistance and solitudeAs a reflection of this emotional labour there is traditionally homemade red wine aged and stored in glass bottles and baranis storage jars A handcast covered in honeycomb with bees peppered through the show further reflects the extent of this labourrsquos presence at home and in the outside world likening it to bee pollinationSaviya LopesComing to the altar of sculptures of body parts To You I Owe Niccolograve Moscatelli Italybased artist and curator delineates in the curatorial note ldquoIt is culture incarnated and passed through generations of women As the body is the primary vessel of this matrilineal thread it becomes an object of worship to LopesrdquoTill May 20 Time 11 am to 8 pm Tuesday to Sunday AT Art and Charlie 71A Pali Village Bandra WestA visual conversationBringing a larger sense of dynamism into the gallery space Amol K Patilrsquos Black Masks on Roller Skates is built through sculptures kinetic installations drawings holographic video poetry and performance seamlessly to create what he tells us is an entire installation in itself His upcoming solo exhibition at Project 88 is an excerpt of Patilrsquos larger exhibition at documenta fifteen in 2022 at Kassel Germany He shares ldquoAt documenta fifteen the show was a larger conversation about my whole community and how they travelled from Konkan to Kolhapur to Bombay which draws from my grandfatherrsquos and fatherrsquos archives My grandfather was a Powada a traditional protest art form singer and performer and wrote poetry while my father Kisan Patil a theatre activistrdquoS10 Bronze Sculpture Pics CourtesyPatil and Project 88 right D19 Ink and waterbased paint on MDF PlywoodDrawing from memories of when he encountered a single script along with cassettes of immigrant dialects put together by his father who passed away when he was still a child Patil tells us ldquoWhen I read my fatherrsquos script that was biographical of the community and when you engage with it too you will realise that he never wrote about one person but many through the narration of one personrdquo Patil does the same through his artistic practice calling it his individual protest that talks about the experiences of the Dalit community ldquoHis work addresses the oppression built into urban cities in order to imagine spaces of resistancerdquo says Sree Goswami director of Project 88Amol K PatilThe 36yearold artist will highlight this in artworks that include map lines similar to a cutout of Google Maps bronze sculptures drawings and a kinetic installation that will see sand moving as if breathing to showcase the journey of his people and the stories that continue to live in memory legacy and reality as well as a performance where he collaborates with young Powada writers and the Yalgaar Sanskrutik Manch to recreate and present a live rendering of his grandfatherrsquos poems Patil speaks about the visual translation of his work ldquoThe overall project uses the materials through which I feel I can speak about my community their freedom separation and its other aspects Itrsquos a loud conversation that continues today with my generationrdquo Patil signs offStarts March 23 6 pm to 9 pm Till April 29 performance on March 30 at 6 pm At Project 88 Colaba