A Pound of Feathers | Pragati Dalvi Jain

Pragati Dalvi’s multidisciplinary practice emerges from a visceral inner current, an emotive, often unutterable stimulus that resists easy articulation. Her work pulses with the sediment of lived accumulated experience, a psychic layering where memory, intuition, and vulnerability coalesce. In a world that increasingly demands detachment, a practical, pragmatic, unsentimental existence, the human psyche has learned to desensitise itself for survival. It is precisely this slow numbing that Pragati confronts, gently but resolutely.

Her art becomes a quiet rebellion against this emotional erasure. Across media and materiality, Pragati seeks to salvage the fluid, innocent, auroraic emotions that have been buried under the pressure of endurance and propriety; those soft, luminous sensations that flicker at the edges of childhood, adulthood, memory, and forgotten dreaming. Through repetition, touch, fragility, and pause, she draws out what has been silenced or stifled, giving form to the inner murmurings we no longer know how to name.

Pragati’s art practice does not aim to restore an idealised past, but to create space for re-sensitisation, a tender witnessing of what it means to feel deeply in a clinically inclined human world. In this exhibition, the viewer is invited not to interpret, but to dwell, to sense, to feel and to remember what it means to be permeable again.