This exhibition brings together a seminal group of modern Indian artists, Ram Kumar, Ganesh Haloi, P. Gopinath, Himmat Shah, Shanti Dave, and G. R. Santosh, whose practices collectively shaped the language of abstraction in modern Indian art.

Titled What Stays, What Dissolves, the exhibition revisits a formative moment in Indian art history, when artists began to move beyond figuration toward more internalised and exploratory visual languages. Seen today, these works reflect not merely a stylistic shift, but a deeper transformation in how artists engaged with memory, landscape, material, and perception.

Though contemporaries, each artist arrived at abstraction through distinct trajectories. Ram Kumar's contemplative cityscapes dissolve into structures of quiet introspection, while Ganesh Haloi's works evoke mnemonic landscapes shaped by memory and displacement. P. Gopinath's gestural canvases foreground process and movement, and Shanti Dave's paintings emphasise surface and materiality through layered pigments and textures. The exhibition extends into sculpture with Himmat Shah's bronze forms, which distill the human figure into elemental, enduring presences. In contrast, G. R. Santosh's gouaches engage with the architectural and topographical rhythms of the Himalayan landscape, transforming the visible world through stylisation.

Bringing these works together, the exhibition foregrounds both convergence and divergence. It does not attempt to unify these practices, but instead presents them in their simultaneity, tracing a shared inquiry into form, meaning, and experience.

reflects on the shifting nature of form itself. Across these works, images emerge, recede, and reconstitute, leaving behind traces that persist in memory, material, and the act of seeing. On view from 5 May to 20 June 2026, the show will be open Monday to Saturday, between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM.