GROUP EXHIBITION

The title is a question rather than a definition. Where does the body begin? With the physical self, the landscape it inhabits, the histories it carries, or the forces that move through it? Across the three exhibitions, the body is understood as more than anatomy: it is shaped by memory, place, weather, inheritance, touch, labour, material, desire, vulnerability, and other forms of life.

The sequence follows an internal logic: from what is carried and remembered, to what acts upon and through us, to the body as the place where these forces become lived and felt. Each exhibition has its own atmosphere and set of concerns; together they form one continuous curatorial statement.

All participating artists are Pune-born or Pune-based. The project considers the city as shared ground, a place shaped by different generations, histories, environments, and languages. Rather than defining a single Pune art scene, it brings distinct practices into proximity and asks what becomes visible when artists connected by place approach shared questions from different positions.

The sequence begins with what remains. Memory may be carried through family, architecture, landscape, language, ritual, labour, or the everyday life of a city. It may persist within an object, an image, or a gesture, or survive less visibly as a trace, an absence, a pattern, or something held within material.

Memory here is not fixed. It fades, repeats, fractures, and is reconstructed. The works move between intimate histories and larger cultural memory, asking how the past continues to act upon the present even when its original form has disappeared.

The works approach memory through materials and processes that bear evidence of time: repeated marks and painted surfaces, worn architecture, inherited textiles, bodily imprints, stitched repairs, fired clay, inscribed copper, salvaged objects, ritual forms, and digital images that emerge and dissolve.