Booth No. K07.
Artists: Ubik, Aakriti Chandervanshi, Sarban Chowdhury, Meher Afroz Vahid, Radha Rathi, Sooraja K.S., Pragati Dalvi Jain
The presentation brings together works that emerge from sustained, research-driven trajectories within each artist’s practice. We are particularly excited to present Aakriti Chandervanshi’s recent works, which draw from intimate family archives to recenter the women in her lineage. Through photographs, text, and found material, Chandervanshi reclaims domestic and familial memory as a site of authorship, foregrounding emotional inheritance and gendered histories that are often rendered peripheral.
Sarban Chowdhury presents ceramic works that extend beyond material experimentation to engage critically with questions of sexuality, social constraint, and regulation. While grounded in his doctoral research on sustainable glaze practices and the reuse of industrial waste, these works operate metaphorically — using the ceramic form to reflect on vulnerability, suppression, and resilience within contemporary social structures.
Sooraja KS presents works that examine the depiction of women in the present moment, foregrounding the idea of the woman as autonomous and at ease within her own surroundings. Through materially resonant motifs drawn from everyday life, her practice questions inherited notions of femininity — asking whether it is defined by long hair, specific forms of dress, or prescribed gestures — and instead proposes femininity as a fluid, self-determined condition.
Pragati Dalvi Jain presents works that further her sustained inquiry into maternal identity, care, and psychosomatic experience, following her recent solo exhibition at APRE. Meher Afroz Vahid’s intermedia works explore sensory states of becoming shaped by geography, migration, and transitory temporalities, while Radha Rathi’s paintings offer psychologically charged spaces marked by introspection and perceptual ambiguity. UBIK’s conceptual interventions frame the booth through a critical engagement with language, objects, and contemporary systems of meaning, creating connective tissue across the presentation.
