What to Expect

"I Can Feel It in My Eyes," a roundtable program of ‘The Elemental You’ exhibition, is an exploration of the city’s enduring desire for green spaces, vibrant flower beds and nature experiences. The project delves into a short multifaceted study by the artist through field visits to gardens and nurseries, interviews with local residents and gardeners, along with collecting plant samples to make anthotypes (camera-less photographs). This will culminate into an ephemeral album by the artist capturing the various troubled hues of the capital’s winter landscape.

Participants are invited to have a conversation around greening practices and co-create the album with the artist on January 7th. On a visit to the Lodhi Gardens, one of Delhi's most iconic green spaces, participants will engage in a creative process, when it is engulfed in greys. Participants will collectively thread together these narratives, observations and reflections, along with the anthotypes and field documentation carried out over the duration of the project.

Note: Participants are requested to first gather at KNMA Saket, from where the group will proceed together to Lodhi Garden.

What you need to carry

Just carry your creative energy.

Bio

Anuja Dasgupta is a visual artist, educator and agri-preneur based in Ladakh, India. In an image-driven world, she situates her practice in the elementary aspects of making images. Her work takes shape from the vantage point of Ladakh in the remote roof of the Indian Himalayas, which underpins her camera-less and analog photography, bookmaking, mixed-media installations, and pedagogical practice. Anuja is the recipient of the Generator Co-Operative Art Production Fund - Experimenter (2024), Verzasca Foto Residency - Pro Helvetia New Delhi (2024), TOTO Award for Photography (2023), Prince Claus Seed Award (2021), the Indian Photography Festival Portrait Prize (2017). Her work has been showcased at platforms such as the Swiss Photo Month (2024), Critical Zones, Goethe-Institut New Delhi (2024), LoosenArt, Italy (2022), Ladakh Literature Festival (2019), Kochi-Muziris Students' Biennale (2018), Head On Photo Festival, Australia (2018), among others.