We are excited to announce our new exhibition “Every Land is Karbala“ curated by Epsita Halder!

Details:
Opening: 8th February 2025
4 pm onwards: Curatorial walk-through by Epsita Halder
6 pm Onwards
Dastangoi: Zahid Hussain

Recitals:
Veneration and Lament by Atif Ali Khan
Muted Song by Moushumi Bhowmik

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

“Every Land is Karbala” brings together the vision of a curator and a group of young artists from diverse disciplines to explore the battle of Karbala as a metaphor for injustice, resilience, and transformation. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this exhibition connects stories, objects, and memories across shifting landscapes, expanding the symbolic realm of Karbala and recontextualising its meaning. To arrive at this exhibition, artists working in the field of visual art, sound and performance have been inspired to delve deeply into the political histories and aesthetic capacities of their material and stretch them towards understanding Karbala.

Every Land is Karbala believes that creative processes can become political, and art has the power to – critically and compassionately – move hearts.

Curator’s bio:

Epsita Halder is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, India. She researches and publishes on the Muharram-complex and Shi’a identity formation in Bengal. Parts of her research have been supported by the India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore, and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. She was the visiting fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her first monograph, Reclaiming Karbala: Nation, Islam and Literature of the Bengali Muslims (Routledge, 2022), received a book award from the Indian History Congress (2023). In her other lives, she walks as a flâneuse and writes a fortnightly column ‘Hente Dekhte Sikhun’ on her flâneury through the lanes and bylanes of Kolkata.

The exhibition will be on view till Sunday, 9th March 2025.

We look forward to seeing you all!