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A map folded open

Sabeen Omar, Urna Sinha, Mahen Perera

Curated By Zeenat Nagree

If a map is folded open, it reveals peril and possibility: An invitation to see where its lines may lead, a chance to measure the approximate distances between events, to follow memory where it lingers, and to return to the darkness of shadows and the whispers of leaves.

The three artists featured in this exhibition embrace peculiar methodologies of tracing routes. Sabeen Omar transforms fragments of used or discarded textiles into glimmering monuments—to the past, to the touch and presence of bodies, to home and the creation of other worlds from it. Urna Sinha paints and photographs sites of grief and longing, infusing the mundane with the weight of transience. For her, waiting and wandering is a way of attending—to skin and surface, and to the dreams and hallucinations that emerge from routine. Mahen Perera seeks encounters where form and feeling become the centre of knowing. His sculptures record gestures of his experiences that are suspended between desire and withdrawal.

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