A unique collaborative exhibition to celebrate 10 years of Tarq
Overlaps, this show marks the 10th anniversary of the gallery, and highlights the ethos of collaboration and the sense of community that has defined Tarq’s programming over the years. The portfolio of prints on display represent rigorous artistic work and dialogue, “underpinned by a spirit of fun, experimentation, and learning," states the gallery note. For Hena Kapadia, founder, Tarq, the process of pairing the artists and observing them engage in a series of meaningful dialogue with one another has been most rewarding.
“We have had a long engagement with all the artists, who have participated in the show. I am quite familiar with their interests and practices, and this understanding went into the deciding of pairs," she says. While the mediums and vocabularies of each artist might be different, the pairings were based on common strands of thought, motivations and concerns.
The creative practitioners agreed to this experimental exercise, and the themes, which emerged in the process, were based on ideas of identity, space, architecture, and ecology. For the show, Kapadia reached out to Pritam Arts, a 38-year-old screen print studio based in Lower Parel, Mumbai, run by a father-son duo, Prabodh and Prajval Mendon. The studio is known for experimenting with scale, medium, colour, and impressions, and seemed like a perfect fit for the project.
To highlight the process behind the exhibition, the gallery space has been divided into two parts. One features the prints created by the artists, and in the second part, the print studio has been recreated to showcase the work done by the artists at Pritam Arts. Also read: A powerful new exhibition on the forest residents of Aarey Work on the show started months ago, with the paired
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