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Anant Art is pleased to announce Naya Anjor, a group exhibition curated by Arushi Vats welding distinct artistic approaches that are keeping vigil against the extractive occupations of mountains, forests and rivers in South Asia. Inspired by a song by Faguram Yadav, a poet at the heart of Chattisgarh Mukti Morcha, the exhibition presents collective imaginaries, narrative flights and stories of resistance struggles as vital sources against anthropocenic nihilism and will be on view from 2 December - 12 December 2022 at Center for Contemporary Arts, Bikaner House. “Naya Anjor”, which translates to a “new ray” harks to the promise of Octavia Butler’s radical assertion: “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”

Tito’s art invites us to step inside an ethereal arboretum that is glittered with rich and expressive brushwork; it is a nursery invoking the American poet Wallace Stevens’ words, ‘black reds, pink yellows, orange whites,’ enamouring the viewer in a metaphor of excess - an excess of colour, imagination, and truth. It is in this lush landscape, this intangible world of a stranger, riddled with Christian mythology and symbolisms, where Tito performs the danse macabre, or the dance of death. 

Mycelial Legacies brings together paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, and videos by 30 artists with past and present affiliations to the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara – an institution that has been one of the wellsprings of contemporary Indian art practice. In doing so, the exhibition seeks to codify the contribution of women artists to the development of the Faculty and to the shaping of its broader influences, and to widen an institutional legacy that has traditionally been signposted in terms of the contributions of its male stalwarts.