Evolution / Involution: A Contemporary Abstraction Exhibition

Evolution / Involution is a group exhibition presented by Bhavna Kakar and curated by Khushboo Jain, opening at LATITUDE 28, New Delhi. Bringing together a distinguished roster of modern masters and contemporary international artists, the exhibition explores abstraction as a philosophical and experiential practice rooted in both ancient symbolism and contemporary thought.

The exhibition is conceptually anchored in the Bindu—a primordial point that serves as a generative source and organising principle. Revisiting a significant post-1960s artistic movement, the participating artists reinterpret ancient symbolic forms through modernist abstraction, employing geometric vocabularies such as circles, triangles, grids, and meditative colour fields. These visual structures function as pathways toward inwardness, energy, and consciousness, dissolving binaries between the spiritual and the material.

Evolution / Involution seeks to decolonise readings of South Asian visual traditions, moving beyond ritualistic or orientalist frameworks to reclaim them as living, intuitive, and contemporary epistemologies. While deeply informed by South Asian visual heritage, the exhibition foregrounds transnational dialogues, bringing together artists who engage with esoteric forms, energetic mappings, and metaphysical inquiry through distinctly contemporary practices.

Anchored by historical figures such as Sohan Qadri and Prabhakar Barwe, and extended through present-day global voices including Alexander Gorlizki, Claudia Wieser, Olivia Fraser, Shobha Broota, and others, the exhibition traces how a single point of origin—the Bindu—can unfold into expansive ways of seeing, thinking, and being. Abstraction here emerges not only as a visual language but as an embodied and philosophical inquiry.

Participating Artists

Sohan Qadri, Prabhakar Barwe, Alexander Gorlizki, Ayushi Patni, Balan Nambiar, Claudia Wieser, Desmond Lazaro, Elisabeth Deane, Genevieve Chua, Jethro Buck, Karen Köhler, Mahirwan Mamtani, Nicole Frobush, Olivia Fraser, Shane Drinkwater, Shobha Broota, Tanya Johnson

Exhibition Details

Presented by: Bhavna Kakar
Curated by: Khushboo Jain

Venue: LATITUDE 28, B-74, Ground Floor, Block B, Defence Colony, New Delhi – 110024
Exhibition On View: 3 February – 15 March 2026
Gallery Timings: Monday to Sunday, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM