Lulu Alyahya, Fiza Khatri, Lalitha Lajmi, Jagdeep Raina, Noorain Inam,

Gurminder Sikand, Leily Moghtader Mojdehi, Shivangi Kalra

Opnning 14 May 6-8 pm

15 May - 20 June

Diaphanous brings together artists whose practices operate at the threshold between psychological interiority and the external, social world. The paintings, sculptures and textiles in the exhibition are considered as a permeable surface through which memory, lived experience, and social structures circulate and overlap.

Across these works, domestic interiors, bodies, streets, and communal spaces function not as stable settings but as mutable sites shaped by personal history and collective conditions. Reality is rendered as layered and contingent: memory interrupts the present, private experience reframes public space, and social expectations register within intimate environments. Figures appear suspended, fragmented, or partially absorbed into their surroundings, while spaces remain recognizable yet subtly transformed. Disjunction, temporal slippage, and moments of surreal inflection emerge not as formal strategies, but as visual consequences of navigating inherited histories, gendered roles, and shifting social contexts. These paintings resist fixed narratives, instead articulating subjectivity as something continually negotiated.

Within this framework, painting becomes a medium through which ongoing transformation is registered—psychological rather than declarative, cumulative rather than resolved. The diaphanous quality of these works lies in their translucence: the way inner life and external reality remain visible to one another, separated by a boundary that is thin, unstable, and deliberately unresolved.