Exhibitions
    Artworks Installation Shots Curatorial Essay
  • Darmiyana Fasla, Interim Distance Darmiyana Fasla, Interim Distance
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S3 Redha Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S3 Redha
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S4 Radar Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S4 Radar
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S5 Radical Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S5 Radical
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L1 Rud Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L1 Rud
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L2 Rund Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L2 Rund
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L3 Rudhir Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L3 Rudhir
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L4 Ruudh Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L4 Ruudh
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L5 Rude Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - L5 Rude
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - Tailbone Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - Tailbone
  • Sanctuary Sanctuary
  • Phool Bano ka Khwaab Phool Bano ka Khwaab
  • Hazaar Zarre Ret aur Roshni ka gumaan, Light and Its Illusion on a Thousand Grains of Sand Hazaar Zarre Ret aur Roshni ka gumaan, Light and Its Illusion on a Thousand Grains of Sand
  • Hafez Aur Ek Nabina Ashaar, Hafez, And A Blind Verse Hafez Aur Ek Nabina Ashaar, Hafez, And A Blind Verse
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S2 Ready Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S2 Ready
  • Dasht-O Sehra, The Field And The Desert Dasht-O Sehra, The Field And The Desert
  • Taghabi Anar Taghabi Anar
  • Sunhara Bagh, Gilded Garden Sunhara Bagh, Gilded Garden
  • Gaanth, Knot Gaanth, Knot
  • Sabz-o Sunhara Sabz-o Sunhara
  • Nashtar Manind Alfaz, Words Like Blades Nashtar Manind Alfaz, Words Like Blades
  • Ek Sitaare Ki Gawaahi, The Testimony Of A Star Ek Sitaare Ki Gawaahi, The Testimony Of A Star
  • Red Mother Series Red Mother Series
  • Corrective measures; and here we are against the death Corrective measures; and here we are against the death
  • Phantom phases; excerpts from delirium, fictions from a death bed - 1 Phantom phases; excerpts from delirium, fictions from a death bed - 1
  • Phantom phases; excerpts from delirium, fictions from a death bed - 2 Phantom phases; excerpts from delirium, fictions from a death bed - 2
  • Phantom phases; stage 1- Karaikkal Amma’s line Phantom phases; stage 1- Karaikkal Amma’s line
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T1 Raad Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T1 Raad
  • Chaap 2 Chaap 2
  • Chaap 3 Chaap 3
  • Chaap 4 Chaap 4
  • Chaap 5 Chaap 5
  • Chaap 6 Chaap 6
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C1 Rad Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C1 Rad
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C2 Radh Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C2 Radh
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) C3 - Radd Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) C3 - Radd
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) C4 - Raddi Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) C4 - Raddi
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C5 Ruddy Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C5 Ruddy
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C6 Radda Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C6 Radda
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C7 Rind Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - C7 Rind
  • Chaap 1 Chaap 1
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T2 raad Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T2 raad
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T3 Raa’d Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T3 Raa’d
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T4 Ra’dat Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T4 Ra’dat
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T5 Raa’di, Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T5 Raa’di,
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T6 Raadh Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T6 Raadh
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T7 Raaddhih Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T7 Raaddhih
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T8 Rid Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T8 Rid
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T9 Riddat Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T9 Riddat
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T10 Reedh Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T10 Reedh
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T11 Reed Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T11 Reed
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T12 Reetna Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - T12 Reetna
  • Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S1 Redhi Disabled Dictionary: South Asia Edition 'र' (Speech therapist approved) - S1 Redhi

‘Forestial Flock’ listens out for the ecopoetics inherent in Bhakti and Sufi verses, tracing the significance of the forest within contemporary queer-feminist worlds. Since times immemorial generations of women have flocked to the forest to gather herbs, hold sacraments, supplement their income, hide, escape, or just gather their thoughts. In her book, Caliban and the Witch (2004), Silvia Federici underlines the special dependency of working-class women on forests and consequently the disproportionate diminution of their autonomy with the enclosure of the said purlieus. The ancient alliance extends well into the present, judging from the presence of women at the forefront of environmental movements like Women of Nigeria and Chipko. Closer to home we have heard whispers of witchcraft acting as an anti-caste, anti- colonial force in the west much as the figure of Bonbibi did in the east.

Wilderness holds a special place in the politically sensuous expressions of Sufi and Bhakti mystics. Not only did it offer refuge to these social dissidents, but it also allowed them room to live out their unique brand of mystical politics, inspiring an anarchist idiom that could be yoked to the enterprise of social critique/reorganisation. Wilderness thus served both as a cover for these bewildered bodies as well as a conduit for their rewilding. Listening to their quatrains one wonders whether it is the wandering mystic eulogising the wilderness or the wilderness conspiring through her.

The exhibition invites the audience to explore some of these links between wilderness, poetry, and freedom.

– Adwait Singh

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