‘NOTATIONS ON TIME’ at Ishara Art Foundation

Ishara Art Foundation is pleased to present Notations on Time, curated by Sandhini Poddar and Sabih Ahmed

Notations on Time is a group exhibition that examines the philosophical and political dimensions of time through the works of 20 contemporary South Asian and diaspora artists. The exhibition, curated by Sandhini Poddar and Sabih Ahmed, creates a dialogue between artistic generations to highlight the connections between the past, present, and future.

The exhibition functions as a time laboratory, investigating art in notational, experimental, and fragmentary forms. Notations on Time deviates from Western notions of linearity, progress, and capitalist dominance by investigating ontological systems that reveal how artists from this region and its diaspora think about aesthetics, existence, remembrance, and the future.

How and where do we ‘read’ time? On bodies, skins, machines, rivers, landscapes, and stars. Within cosmic space and underground wormholes, unseen root systems, site readings from archaeological and evidentiary fieldwork, ancestry, and oral history.

Traditions, myths, folklore, storytelling, science fiction, mixed realities, long-dead stars in the cosmos viewed through powerful telescopes, and much more.

The exhibition poses questions such as, ‘What happens when residues from the past are reincarnated into the future? Where does this present’s jurisdiction end? What is the past’s future? What possibilities does an exhibition space provide for thinking through these issues?’

Notations on Time includes works by Soumya Sankar Bose, Sheba Chhachhi, Shezad Dawood, Ladhki Devi, Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Aziz Hazara, Amar Kanwar, Ali Kazim, Mariah Lookman, Haroon Mirza, Anoli Perera, Lala Rukh, Jangarh Singh Shyam, Dayanita Singh, Ayesha Sultana, Jagdish Swaminathan, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, and Zarina, accompanied by an infra-vocabulary from Raqs Media Collective’s book ‘Seepage’.

The Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar collection, as well as the private collections of Taimur Hassan, Lekha, Anupam Poddar, and Shweta and Vikram Puri, have loaned works for this exhibition.

The exhibition has been supported by Taimur Hassan. It has recieved logistical support from Jhaveri Contemporary (Mumbai), Lisson Gallery (London), and Saskia Fernando Gallery (Colombo).

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