Residency- Jaipur Centre for Art
These works were produced during a residency at the Jaipur Centre for Art, City Palace, Jaipur, in April and May 2025, supported by the Anant Foundation for the Arts.
Site-responsive in their making — emerging from the architecture of the palace, conversations with the people who work within it, and the condition of a historic institution engaged in the perpetual maintenance of its own image.
Death of a Romantic
Mixed media on board
27.9 x 35.6 cm
11 x 14 in
Untitled
Mixed media on board
29.7 x 45.7 cm
11 3/4 x 18 in
Untitled
Mixed media on board and wood
48.3 x 63.5 x 6.9 cm
19 x 25 x 2 3/4 in
Untitled
Mixed media on board
41.9 x 30.5 cm
16 1/2 x 12 in
शाही खून
Royal Blood
Mixed media on board and wood
48.3 x 63.5 x 6.9 cm
19 x 25 x 2 3/4 in
Untitled
Mixed media on board
45.7 x 26.7 cm
18 x 10 1/2 in
मेरी महबूब कहीं और मिला कर मुझ से
Meet me elsewhere, my beloved"
Mixed media on board
47 x 78.7 cm
18 1/2 x 31 in
मेरी महबूब कहीं और मिला कर मुझ से
Meet me elsewhere, my beloved
Site Specific Installation
Installed briefly at City Palace Jaipur, a suspended cloth bore the line "Meet me elsewhere, my beloved" — drawn from Sahir Ludhianvi's poem Taj Mahal, in which he questions the romanticisation of the monument and foregrounds the invisible labor, class inequality, and imperial power embedded within its construction. Positioned within a former royal palace, the phrase unsettled inherited narratives of grandeur. Though approved initially, the installation was removed once its political implications surfaced. The video documenting fleeting public encounters with it before removal remains as the work's trace.
Under the Same Sky
Mixed media on board and wood
78.7 x 48.3 cm
31 x 19 in