Diaphanous

Diaphanous brings together artists from the diasporas of South Asia and Middle East, whose practices operate at the threshold between psychological interiority and the external, social world. The paintings, sculptures and textiles in the exhibition are considered as permeable surfaces through which memory, lived experience, and social structures circulate and overlap. 

Across these works, domestic interiors, bodies, streets, and communal spaces function not as stable settings but as mutable sites shaped by personal history and collective conditions. Reality is rendered as layered and contingent: memory interrupts the present, private experience reframes public space, and social expectations register within intimate environments. Figures appear suspended, fragmented, or partially absorbed into their surroundings, while spaces remain recognizable yet subtly transformed.

Disjunction, temporal slippage, and moments of surreal inflection emerge not as formal strategies, but as visual consequences of navigating inherited histories, gendered roles, and shifting social contexts. These paintings resist fixed narratives, instead articulating subjectivity as something continually negotiated.