Time, in this exhibition, refuses to flow in a straight line. At Gallery Ragini’s twentieth-anniversary show Between the Strands, Time Bends and Warps, each artwork becomes a fold in memory, a loop in perception, a moment suspended between past and possibility. The gallery breathes with layered narratives where paint, sculpture, and mixed media converse across space, threads intertwining, diverging, and reconverging in unexpected harmonies.
Curator Meena Vari builds a dialogue that bridges generations. Bharti Verma’s textural abstractions pulse with quiet urgency, while Jagannath Panda’s sculptural forms evoke landscapes both real and imagined. Emerging voices like Dhruvi Acharya and Valay Gada challenge the spectator, urging reflection on time’s elasticity and the fragility of identity.
Each installation, each brushstroke, becomes a strand in a collective story of remembrance and renewal. The gallery transforms into a temporal mirror. Viewers move slowly, almost reverently, through interlaced visions, sensing the tension between continuity and rupture, history and invention.
Even the most familiar medium, whether canvas, clay or metal, acquires new resonance when time bends around it, when memory presses against form. “This exhibition is deeply personal,” shares Nidhi Jain, Founder and Director of Gallery Ragini. The experience feels intiOne senses the weight of two decades of curatorial vision alongside the vitality of new voices it champions.
By the final wall, time feels folded into memory, carrying its presence well beyond the space. On view till 28 October at Bikaner House, Between the Strands, Time Bends and Warps is an exhibition to be seen, felt, and remembered.