Making in a Time of Un-Making

Making in a time of un-making Curated by Salik Ansari
In a moment defined by prompts, automation, and the outsourcing of both labour and cognition, the underlying logic remains constant: value is extracted while bodies, time, and material processes are rendered invisible.

This exhibition returns attention to the question of making. Through material investigation, process-based practice, and the persistence of cultural memory, artists Deepak Agastya, Septhel Anna Eldho, Tara Aliya Kesavan, Rajnish Chhanesh, and Meera engage with craft, archival traces, loss, technology, resistance, and care. Their work asserts that making is not an abstract operation but an embodied practice one that unfolds through tools, gesture, repetition, and duration.

Collectively, these practices propose that thinking does not precede the act of making. Rather, it emerges through sustained contact between bodies, matter, and time.