Art shows to see this end of the year, in Mumbai

In today's world, consuming too much digital media can give birth to a new love and preference for physical works of art. And this month, in Mumbai, there are some visual sessions that we invite you to explore and get your head off the virtual world. Discover heroic art in today's socio-political landscape, awesome sculptures and tapestries, as well as recycled art. Register for a tour of one of these art shows to uncover new ways of connecting with yourself and with the reality that surrounds us.

Gurjeet Singh

An artist specializing in portraiture and soft sculpture and who has fluidity mastered in his works of art. His art draws people with an ample sense of reflection, despite its maximalism embedded in self-expression. He explains his "Chorus Of Misfits" as being unlimited, free, and active. The explosion of energy matched with super patterned dumped fabrics isn’t just a simple thought of the artist’s vibrant personality, but it shows a more important theme that relates to love, identity, and trauma. Gurjeet says that he's part of a collective that fights together and explores his queer personality in a traditional Indian society, which is a radical act. He has a passion for the Sikh miniature painting tradition, so the exhibition includes a partnership with the clothing label Bodice by Ruchika Sachdeva.

Sarah Naqvi is an award-winning artist and their debut solo exhibition at Tarq art gallery opens up an overload of works that are worth a visit. Among them, there are tapestries, video installations, drawings, paintings, and also sculptures. They use satire, humor, and capricious props to express themselves and talk about the injustice done by the religion towards gender-affirming and queer people. Naqvi lives in Mumbai and Amsterdam and tells hard concepts in an easy way for anyone to understand and digest. This really puts them separated from their contemporaries. Naqvi concentrates on creating a temporal tomorrow as they challenge the very heart of opposition for someone who is queer and whose life is a constant act of resistance in the face of a discriminatory society.

Critics say about their artwork that Sarah proposes strategies and tools that enable familial kinships and a tender action of surviving in a world that is hostile sometimes.

Katayoun Karami

An Iranian artist that will takes you through her life in the Middle East: her name is Karami and she uses the lens of the region’s inhabitants. Her work has themes around biased understanding of gender expressions, changes in societal standards over time in history, collective experiences, migration. Her series of artworks made over a few years concentrate on communicating the incendiary state of living riddled with anxiety in an Iran torn by war and in adjacent countries. These atrocities are experienced by millions across the earth, but the real horror is felt every day by the residents. So, the artist reminds us of a peaceful past made from scratches like notes, stamps, and other personal objects that sometimes are even covered in blood. Karami’s art confronts socio-personal tasks based on collaborative gathering ventures through mixed media. She has been busily making art for 20 years and she already had four solo exhibitions in Iran and Vienna. Moreover, she participated in many group exhibitions at diverse galleries around the globe.

 Maneesha Doshi

"Weaving Worlds" is a laidback song of happy and gloomy spaces. The artist encourages the observer to step beyond the classic domain of window-framed images and view them as organic things. The proposition that cutouts finally become sculptural, and freestanding, makes space for new histories of gloomy play and conception. As its own mark of pleasure, the artist's "Inner Tree" sequence voices the imaginary areas where wildlife and man appear as one. Doshi declares that she remembers a painter’s work where one discovers a tree with branches according to the activity of squirrels. At the same time, moving from one medium to another, she defines her work as sculptures that stay grounded yet reach their fields in a spiritually surreal terrain. Her work has traveled across the world, and she had shown it even at the British Museum.

Anupam Sud

Anupam Sud makes art since the 1990s and says that print can be predictable. But today, the artist is an ace and gets inspiration from sexual identities. Their symbolic universe encounters both genders storytelling their classic roles and playing a seductive game, usually based on social concepts and problems between the genders. During her career, she showed the willpower and grit of a young lady slowly degrading the ancient ideas of patriarchy and male supremacy. Her work captures a lot of important symbols and is also empowering.