UP Gallery would like to welcome all of you back to the gallery space with a new group exhibition! We are proud to present Indian Contemporary Photography Observation 02: Indian Landscape in a Time of Crisis. Following the 2021 gallery group exhibition Indian Contemporary Photography Observation 01: Breaking Confinement, the gallery will once again focus on Indian contemporary photography. This year we invited Nathaniel Gaskell as the curator of this group exhibition. Gaskell is the founder and director of the MAP Academy — the education arm of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru — and the director of Cara Consulting, Singapore. Also, he has been an editor and author of various research projects and publications on South and Southeast Asian art and culture. The participating artists include Gayatri Ganju, Karthik Subramanian, Nishant Shukla, and Soham Gupta. The four photographers in this exhibition explore, in distinct but comparable ways, the possibilities inherent in representing and engaging with natural landscapes and their associated contexts and possibilities. At this time of environmental crisis and collapse, older ideas of the timeless and sublime picturesque have become charged with overlapping fields of meaning—politics, mythology, metaphor, communal history, personal sentiment—and pose to their chroniclers a deeper challenge of imagination.

A soft opening will be held, please feel free to enter the exhibition directly after the opening at 2:00 pm. We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing all of you!

Indian Contemporary Photography Observation 02: Indian Landscape in a Time of Crisis
Time: March 4 – May 27, 2023
Opening: March 4, 2023 (Sat) 14:00 PM
Curator: Nathaniel Gaskell
Artists: Gayatri Ganju, Karthik Subramanian, Nishant Shukla, and Soham Gupta
Venue: UP Gallery