Curated by Adwait Singh, the exhibition features artworks by Mustafa Khanbhai, a visual artist from Delhi, Mumbai-based artist Priyanka D’Souza, and Waylon James D’Souza, who is a Goa-based artist and designer with a research-driven practice. This exhibition is their interdisciplinary research-driven approach at extrapolating more-than-human evolutionary strands – be it of whales, dolphins, lizards or strangler figs – that nonetheless convey the weight of human-wrought devastation as well as the urgency of holistic, de-centred environmental action and policy making.
Elsewhere in the show, even angrier species confront destructive urbanisms. In Mustafa Khanbhai’s three short films—What Will Survive of Us?, A Final Message, and You are Never too Close (from “The Critter Series,” all 2019)—a strangler-fig tree crushes through concrete; lizards scamper over broken buildings, growing fresh heads and thick new tails that swell from old stumps; pigeons return to their native sea cliffs, reclaiming their habitat while also dropping sheets of glass into the ocean.
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