Design flows through water-inspired multisensory craft
Water’s timeless influence permeates architecture, craft, and narrative in an immersive exhibition that connects India’s past, present, and future.
A multidisciplinary craft-art exhibition that delves into India’s deep connection with water—an enduring force that inspires creativity and artistry. The experience combines history, culture, and craft through tactile and technological installations, layered sounds, and luminous visuals. Water serves as both a resource and a muse, telling stories. The iconic pot represents renewal, connecting the earthly and divine realms and reflecting water’s influence on both material and spiritual practices. Portable storytelling traditions use painted narratives to explore water’s impact on human expression, bringing to life its role in shaping ideas, creativity, and knowledge over time.
The exhibition, curated by Anjana Somany and scenography by Aparna Nambiar and Abhhay Narkar of Vertex Inc, brings together a constellation of voices: scholarship by Naman P. Ahuja, Yatin Pandya, Judy Frater, and Nina Sabnani, contemporary expressions by Made in Earth, Anuvad by Chhail Khalsa, Rhea John, and Harsh Verma, and craft innovations by Shama Pawar, Dhanalakota Rakesh, and Vijay Joshi.
This exhibition, presented by Arthshila Delhi in collaboration with the JSW Foundation, invites you to discover the unseen while also celebrating the fluid thread that connects India’s past, present and future.
