Rethinking social practice as art through Khoj’s ground breaking new exhibition
New Delhi : Khoj’s new exhibition, ‘Threading the Horizon: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice’ brings together socially engaged creative practitioners to reflect on quotidian experiences of gender-based violence and thread together propositions on and imaginings of equitable futures across social and cultural horizons.
Positioned as an entanglement of fourteen community-based projects across India, the exhibition brings to the fore acts of resilience that emerge through artistic strategies of placemaking, building voice, bearing witness, negotiating visibility and leisure, healing and catharsis. The practices propose a worldmaking within itself, where encounters, engagements, acts and actions generate new cosmologies. A hope for a better future emerges in restitution, quietude and vigor of collective action.
Featuring works by Aravani Art Project, Aryakrishnan R, Baaraan Ijlal, Divya Chopra and Rwitee Mandal, Jasmeen Patheja, Padmini Ray Murray, Princess Pea, Saleha Sapra and Riddhi Batra, Sanyukta Saha, Shweta Bhattad, Sumedha Garg and Nitin Bathla, Sumona Chakravarty and Nilanjan Das, Swati Janu and Stuti Pradhan, the projects pry open the everydayness of gender-based violence to make way for an alternate framing of this experience through an artist’s lens in the public realm.
The opening event will include a performance by the ‘Gram Art Project’ from 6.30pm onwards. The women of Gram Art Project will be showcasing a collection of clothes made from organic cotton, sourced in part from their own fields. The individual iterations of clothing will unpack the stories of violence and unjust practices faced by the women.
Threading the Horizon exhibition opens on November 5, 2022 (6pm onwards) and will be on view until December 30 from 11am to 7pm | Monday to Saturday at Khoj Studios, S-17 Khirkee Extension, New Delhi.