Exhibit here to stay

Development means much more than infrastructure. Culture and society also undergo small and big transformations to keep up with the changes in context. These intangible shifts in human consciousness and behaviour over time are felt most deeply through the voices of the forebearers of culture, artists.

We are a complex country with a colonial past, institutionalised allure for the West and deep purpose for a progression in our own identity on the world stage. Areas of development or the lack thereof have impacted our corner of the world in many ways that are different to that of the rest.

Addressing the nuances of our people, contemporary artists in this exhibition voice who we are, what we remember and who we want to be as a society today. Through their own visual language one that is indisputably South Asian in aesthetic, narrative and historical context, they signal change. These artists and their voices are here to stay.