Where the Body Begins: Body

Where does the body begin?

With the physical self, the landscape it inhabits, the histories it carries, or the forces that move through it?
Where the Body Begins unfolds through three connected chapters: Memory, Nature, and Body. Together they consider the body as more than anatomy, shaped by what it remembers, by the environments it moves through, and by the material and social conditions that act upon it. Each chapter has its own atmosphere and set of concerns, and they form one continuous curatorial statement.

All participating artists are Pune-born or Pune-based. Pune functions here as shared ground rather than a defining identity, bringing distinct generations and practices into proximity and asking what becomes visible when artists connected by place approach shared questions from different positions.

BODY
24 October – 21 November 2026

Body considers the body not as image or physical form alone, but as a lived and continually changing space, one that carries memory, sensation, desire, vulnerability, inheritance, and transformation. The exhibition asks where the body begins and ends, and how it is shaped by what moves through it: time, touch, environment, experience, labour, material, and social structures. The body appears through anatomy and gesture, but also through surface, repetition, pressure, texture, movement, concealment, and fragmentation. Rather than presenting it as stable or self-contained, the exhibition understands the body as permeable, formed through contact with natural systems, personal histories, social structures, and the physical world.