In the 21st century, the meanings of ‘things’ we know and the values we attach to themhave become unstable, shifting with a pace faster than any moment in human history. Like feet slipping in marshland, our grasp of the world is continuously unsettled-less aboutthe survival of the fittest, more about the survival of the compatible. At this crossroads of time and thought, we constantly renegotiate meaning, informed by philosophical turns,
political upheavals, scientific revelations, and the hyper-access to information. What emerges are fragile terrains of understanding-collective behaviours and individual responses that are always provisional.

Artists, however, hold a distinct capacity: to distill these complexities into contemplativeform. Their works act as coordinates for navigating the overwhelming conditions of our
present. Through visual frameworks, they open portals into existential anxiety, ecological vulnerability, geopolitical turbulence, politicized ecologies, and the widening gulf between rural and urban realities.

The exhibition “PRs nisarada: Quagmires for Epiphanies” positions art as both compass and mirror. In confronting the slipperiness of our times, it seeks to create moments of clarity-epiphanies that illuminate how we might endure, reimagine, and act within the quagmires we inhabit.

-Nikhil Purohit

Curatorial Advisor – Rajesh Pullarwar