ART MUMBAI’s Curated Guide to Art Shows in October
By ART MUMBAI
Explore Mumbai through art this October—from contemplations on every life to paintings derived from divine imagery, these are the shows we’re visiting this month.
Artwork by Yogesh Barve. Image Courtesy of Art and Charlie.
Anchored in the mundane, anti-heroic everyday, Tayen Tayen Fish captures the playful, humorous and tragic multiplicities of grand ambitions meeting cold realities.
The Hidden Fortune by Salonika Agarwal. Image Courtesy of Art Musings.
Hardikar and Aggarwal spotlight the beauty of ordinary life in Roots/Blooms, where the nature that surrounds us and the communities that sustain us take center stage.
Artwork by Dr. Madhuri Kathe. Image Courtesy of Art and Soul.
Drawing on early theosophical abstraction, Dr. Kathe’s layered works draw from the unseen energies that surround the physical world and take shape through thought, feeling, formlessness and colour.
Artwork by Meenal Singh. Image Courtesy of KYNKYNY.
Morphology brings ecology, abstraction and the processes of creating images into conversation with each other, through the works of Meenal Singh and Sandilya Theuerkauf.
Artwork by SH Raza. Image Courtesy of Milaaya Art Gallery.
Connecting generations through textile, Dhaara brings together modern and contemporary Indian and South Asian artists, from KK Hebbar and SH Raza to Waswo X. Waswo.
KK Hebbar, SH Raza, Ranbir Kaleka, Waswo X. Waswo, Sakib Afridi, Jagannath Panda, and Priyantha Udagedara
Artwork by Imon Chetia Phukan. Image Courtesy of Lakeeren Contemporary.
A poignant look into how migration alters both the migrant and their memory of the place they called home, Elsewhere Begins at Home discusses ideas of belonging, remembrance and identity.
Artwork by Jayasri Burman. Image Courtesy of Saffronart, Chawla Art Gallery, and Snowball Studios.
Burman uses Rabindranath Tagore’s belief that liberation comes from engaging fully with life's joys and sorrows, with works that acknowledge violence, ecological loss and displacement, and transform that anxiety into hope and beauty.
Jayasri Burman
Snowball Studios
Presented by Saffronart, Chawla Art Gallery, and Snowball Studios