CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE INNER WORLD
A Group Exhibition featuring Dimpy Menon, Rakhee Shenoy, Veenita Chendvankar, Payal Rokade, Bakula Nayak, Priyanka Aelay, Nidhi Mariam Jacob

15 May - 24 May 2026

The feminine voice is resonant, and diverse. It can be strong and vulnerable at the same time, powerful and tender, playful and exacting. This collective voice carries with it the wisdom and spirit of aeons, and embraces a consciousness of the internal and external worlds, even as it responds to the immediate present and the distant future. There are underlying threads of meaning that connect the artists in the exhibition; among them, one that demonstrates a deep and lasting bond with nature, and another that focuses on interaction with the self – through a record of both mundane and extraordinary experiences. The artworks generate a dialogue within the shared space, with reflections of dreams and desires, love and hope, confessions and questions: a cartography of the inner worlds of the creators.

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RAKHEE SHENOY


Experimenting with a visual language that is as layered in technique as it is complex in narrative, Rakhee Shenoy constructs artworks that question the nature of corporeality. She produces deeply evocative tableaus that unite unlikely and often paradoxical objects and entities, from flowers and insects to gadgets and keepsakes, traversing thin lines between memory and imagination, private and public, past and present. She reconfigures scale and meaning, creating alternative timelines in which possibilities are boundless.

VEENITA CHENDVANKAR


Veenita proposes new realities in her acrylic-on-canvas paintings, drawing variedly from memory, myth and fantasy, and translating elements from traditional and indigenous visual languages into contemporary expressions. The picture planes are inhabited by poetic and hybrid forms that move unfettered through space and landscape. A colourist by expertise, the artist builds mood and intensity through subtle shifts in tone and hue.

DIMPY MENON


Dimpy Menon’s figurative sculptures are embodiments of exhilaration and grace. The lyrical movement and sense of lightness in the forms are a result of the artist’s expertise with the medium, as she transforms heavy metal into fluid structures and elements of nature. Freezing moments caught in time, she invites viewers to enter into an atmosphere of delicate balance and calm, where imagination leads the way forward into a better world.

  • On a Wave

    On a Wave

    DIMPY MENON

    On a Wave

    17 x 10 x 19.5 inches
    ₹ 425,000
    ₹ 425,000
  • Rhapsody

    Rhapsody

    DIMPY MENON

    Rhapsody

    16 x 7 x 20 inches
    ₹ 375,000
    ₹ 375,000
  • Gliding

    Gliding

    DIMPY MENON

    Gliding

    17 x 14 x 30 inches
    ₹ 475,000
    ₹ 475,000
  • Gliding

    Gliding

    DIMPY MENON

    Gliding

    10 x 15 x 22 inches
    ₹ 375,000
    ₹ 375,000
  • Stories in the Sky

    Stories in the Sky

    DIMPY MENON

    Stories in the Sky

    14 x 10 x 27 inches
    ₹ 350,000
    ₹ 350,000

PAYAL ROKADE


Using printmaking as her primary medium, Payal creates graphic compositions that interpret her personal transition between rural and urban atmospheres. The imagery contains combinations of architectural and natural forms, with sometimes floating masses and morphed fusions of both. She plays astutely with spatial and linear devices, creating topographical appearances that are both dreamlike and unstable.

PRIYANKA AELAY


The soil and sky, the land and all the life it holds, the waters and the forests they feed, all these become part of the personalised mythology that Priyanka depicts in her acrylic-on-canvas paintings. Here, the fauna spotted within thick foliage presents symbolic readings open to interpretation. Under the artist’s fine handling, the play of colours follows night into day and dusk into dawn, with the soft illumination beckoning viewers into the hidden mysteries of mother nature.

NIDHI MARIAM JACOB


Nidhi Mariam holds dear her childhood memories of time spent in parks and gardens. The abundant fluorescence that she paints combines carefully observed botanical forms and exaggerated depictions of plant growth. The intense focus on beauty also brings to mind the transitory nature of all living things – what is born must die, what is organic will mingle with the earth in order to feed new life.

BAKULA NAYAK


Materiality, memory and meaning are integral to Bakula’s work, as she sifts through objects of her personal history and transforms their narratives within a contemporary context. Text and image come together in her paintings, which often include unusual surfaces like old letters, cards, documents and prints collaged among sensitive still life compositions. The bright bunch of blooms, the charming clutter on a table top, cookies and coffee-cups become symbols of both familiarity and fiction.

The artists in the exhibition individually and collectively draw attention to those necessary pauses in everyday life wherein one can commune with nature and oneself, and in that, to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship between outer and inner landscapes. With that comes the notion that understanding one would lead to a better understanding of the other, and vice versa.

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