‘Very Small Feelings’ is curated by Akansha Rastogi (Senior Curator, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art) and Diana Campbell (Artistic Director, Samdani Art Foundation) with Ruxmini Choudhury, Avik Debdas, and Swati Kumari. It is co-produced by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and Samdani Art Foundation. The first iteration of the exhibition was organised at the Dhaka Art Summit (3 to 11 February 2023). It is the first collaboration of this scale and nature between two large arts institutions in India and Bangladesh.
Very Small Feelings (VSF) is staged through known and forgotten tales, popular characters, cartoons and narratives deeply embedded in one’s consciousness. Interested in the spoken word, and the generative space of orality built through the telling and retelling of stories, VSF gently holds and hosts the figure of the child and childhood play as a stage. It brings together 42 projects ranging from new commissions, historical works, performances, books, personal and institutional archives, artist’s creative prompts turned into installations, and many landscapes. The exhibition seeks to encounter the eternal inner child in us and bind us strongly to it.
Some of the participating artists whose works will be featured in the exhibition are Ade Dianita and Aditya Novali, Ahmet Ogut, Nidhi Khurana, Devi Prasad, Benodebehari Mukherjee, Simon Fujiwara, Afra Eisma, Jani Ruscica, Jessy Razafimandimby, Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty, Anpu Varkey, Afrah Shafiq, and Yasmin Jahan Nupur.
Event Details:
Dates: 4th July – 20th September, 2023
Preview Date: 2nd July 2023
Venue: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Saket, New Delhi