Ones to Watch — Indian art

6 pieces in Ones to Watch

Aaryama Somayaji Paints What the Kitchen Remembers

Recipes, kitchens, and the quiet history held in a family meal, turned into ink, etching and paint by an artist who treats food as a way of remembering who we are.

Jul 22Ones to Watch3 min read

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Farhin Afza Builds Rooms Out of Memory

Installation, print and handmade books that hold the textures of South Asian Muslim domestic life. A Hyderabad artist turning the private home into something worth looking at closely.

Jul 22Ones to Watch3 min read

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Hasan Ali Kadiwala Writes Buildings and Builds Words

Printmaking and painting where Arabic and Urdu script meets Islamic architecture and the natural world. A Baroda artist making abstraction out of letters.

Jul 22Ones to Watch3 min read

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Moumita Basak Stitches the Lives of Village Women

Eco-feminist work in the Kantha textile tradition, holding the everyday labour, memory and ecology of women's lives in rural Bengal.

Jul 22Ones to Watch3 min read

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Nayanjyoti Barman Draws the Cost of Progress

Dense pen-and-ink worlds and installations about industry, ecological loss and displaced birds. An Assam-born artist mapping what development leaves behind.

Jul 22Ones to Watch3 min read

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Sandeep Dhurve Carries the Gond Line Forward

A young Gond artist from the lineage of Jangarh Singh Shyam, painting nature, myth and environment in the intricate dotted line of central India's Pardhan Gond tradition.

Jul 22Ones to Watch3 min read