Prakriti: A Quiet Continuum: Curated by Ruchi Sharma

2 May - 15 June 2026

Works

Overview

Prakriti: A Quiet Continuum brings together the works of Lal Bahadur Singh, Sumanto Chowdhury, K. John Roy, and K. Sudheesh in a contemplative exploration of nature.

Rooted in observation yet extending into introspection, the exhibition reflects on prakriti as both external landscape and inner state. The works attend to quieter shifts: changing light, passing seasons, textures of terrain, and the silent movement of time. Landscapes dissolve into abstraction, forms emerge and recede, and surfaces hold traces of stillness and motion. Nature here breathes, transforms, and renews itself. In dwelling on these subtle transitions, the exhibition creates a space for pause, reflection, and deeper attunement.

Extending this inquiry, each artist engages with prakriti through a deeply personal lens. K. John Roy, drawing from his native Kerala, returns to motifs such as jackfruit and banana groves. He views them as symbols of sustenance. Informed by iconographic traditions, his painterly language transforms these cultivated landscapes into sites that quietly reflect on erosion of natural abundance.

In contrast, K. Sudheesh’s practice emerges from close and sustained observation of a lake near his home, where reflections of ancient trees become meditative thresholds between the visible and the remembered. His practice is rooted in live sketching and developed through layering of colour and texture.

Lal Bahadur Singh, shaped by his rural upbringing and extensive travels across India, constructs vivid and often unexpected juxtapositions of flora and fauna - parrots, cows, and bulls set against shifting rural-urban contexts.

Meanwhile, Sumanto Chowdhury approaches landscape through a process-driven methodology of multiple mounting - layering and assembling surfaces to create both physical and perceptual depth. His works unfold through fragments and planes, where the act of construction mirrors the way landscapes are remembered, revisited, and reassembled over time.

The exhibition dwells in subtleties - shifts of light, textures of terrain, seasonal transitions, and the quiet passage of time. Forms emerge and recede, surfaces hold traces of stillness and movement, and landscapes oscillate between representation and abstraction.

Prakriti: A Quiet Continuum offers a moment of deceleration - a space to reconnect with the environment, with time, and with the subtle, often overlooked cadences of the natural world.