This is me as the curator of the exhibition, finding myself, leading on a journey, sharing my vulnerability, and inviting visitors along the way. What holds us, makes us, carries us, now, in near and long precarious futures, I ask myself these questions as well as question the viewers," says Akansha Rastogi, as she takes you around Kiran Nadar Museum of Art's (KNMA) new exhibition,"The Elemental You" in Saket, Delhi. Aimed to be a 'slow' exhibition, it provokes and encourages the viewers to pace down and engage with the works by three South Asian diaspora artists, Simryn Gill, Neha Choksi and Hajra Waheed.
The project is layered with the larger framework of collection-building exercise aligning exhibition-making as a method to do so. Commenting specifically on the presentation of the three practices, Rastogi admits that it is an unusual intertwining and yet the works complement each other.
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