The River of Many Drops brings together six artists whose practices approach landscape not as a distant view, but as a way of understanding, experiencing, and mapping lived reality. Across etching, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, wood, and collaborative gestures, landscape unfolds through bodies, memory, material, architecture, and collective experience. Each practice offers a distinct terrain, yet together they reveal landscape as a collective consciousness, continually shaped through individual perspectives and lived histories.
Anil Thambai approaches architecture as a lived landscape, where memory, labour, and spatial experience are translated into forms that question how bodies inhabit and understand place. Dibin Thilakan engages material and the human figure as sites where memory, labour, vulnerability, and socio-political realities converge. Through sculpture, painting, and found materials, his works reveal the traces of time embedded within both bodies and objects. Kumaresan Selvaraj considers elevation and depth as interdependent terrains, inviting us to understand balance not through hierarchy, but through coexistence. Meghana Gavireddygari reflects on home as an evolving archive, where domestic space, inherited histories, and material become repositories of memory that continue to shape contemporary experience. Ratna Gupta explores the internal landscapes of memory, rest, and the body, where sleep, objects, and material become ways of navigating transformation, perception, and the fragile relationship between holding on and letting go. Trespassers Collective works through a shared process of painting, allowing multiple gestures, memories, and lived experiences to inhabit a single pictorial space, revealing landscape as something continuously negotiated through shared acts of making.
Together, these practices converge like many drops within a river, forming a landscape that is continually remembered, inhabited, and remade.
- Aishwarya Suresh
The exhibition is curated by Aishwarya Suresh, a Kochi-based artist, curator, and art educator who works across textiles, traditional weaving, experimental materiality and contemporary art. As a curator, she engages with diverse artistic practices, with an interest in developing exhibitions that bring together different perspectives, forms of making and ways of thinking. She recently co-curated Edam, presented alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, featuring 36 artists and collectives from Kerala.