Home is Where the Heart is

Free
Craft
Exhibition

Curated by
Kristine Michael

Azad Maidan

14th December - 21st December

11:00 AM - 05:00 PM

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Homes are not merely physical spaces, they are repositories of emotions, comfort, security and a deep sense of belonging. The exhibition offers a range of perspectives on how home is imagined, represented, and contested through the mediums of handmade craft.

These crafts explore memory, migration, and cultural dislocation signifying different identities and forms of belonging attached to the idea of home, coming alive through materials like textile, ceramics, glass, metal, wood and leather as well as performance. With personal artifacts, photographs, or hybrid interiors, homes are visually reconstructed as a sensorial archive of memory dealing with displacement, fragmentation, or alienation in contrast with the popular visual imagery that depicts home as stable, idyllic or bursting with tradition.

Craft has historically been marginalized as has any artistic practice tied to function, repetition, or domestic space and disconnected from notions of authorship, aesthetic innovation, or conceptual depth. The exhibition aims to revive the notion of craft as a practice rooted in belonging, connection, and community — elements that build both home and heart.

Artists:

Abbas Zakaria Galwani

Anuj Kumar Poddar

Bipasha Sen Gupta

Conceicao Perpetua Godinho

Shido

Harsha Vardhan Durugadda

Ismail Yusuf Plumber

Lyla FreeChild and Gopal Saini

Nandini Datta

Ningkhan Keishing

Om Prakash Galav

Ragini Deshpande

Shalini Dam

Shalina S. Vichitra

Srila Mookherjee

Surjit Nongmeikapam

L.N. Tallur

Verodina Ferrao De Souza

Two UK-based artists from Craftspace’s Made in the Middle exhibition, Roo Dhissou and Nilupa Yasmin, are featured in this show, with support from the British Council.

Curated Walkthroughs will take place from December 14-19 and on December 21, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, with an additional session on December 20 from 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM.