A lot has been observed in the courtyard of the City Palace in Jaipur: the royal procession, polo matches, and courtley protection. This month, Palace opens its doors for a strange exhibition – one that asks that when you have been spent for years, what do you think you do not fit enough.
alien resident The Jaipur is presented by the Center for Art (JCA), a new cultural center co-installed by Sarai Padmanabh Singh and Curator Nole Kadar, which is to bring global conversation to the historical heart of the city. In the Los Angeles worldwide, Rajiv Menon launched a contemporary in 2023 and quickly attracted attention with ambitious programming and museum acquisition. Two youth institutes, two cities, one show – migration, immigration and displacement experience to bring 16 South Asian and Pravasi artists together to understand the “emotional texture”.
Rajiv Menon (Center) with Sawai Padmanabh Singh and Curator Nale Kadar
“Non -resident” is not a romantic word. In India, NRI (NRI) is a legal category; In the US, “Nonsidant Alien” is a tax position – both ways to enter the forms. Menon turned the cold of paperwork into some human being: “For me, it was in the middle of that supernatural-the way the diaspora could feel both familiar and unstable,” they say. The exhibition converts that restlessness into image, material and mood. Or as he shares the creative process on podcast, in search of how artists face their motherland from the condition of the diaspora.
You feel immediate logic in a pair that should not work but does. Sight artist Viraj Khanna’s maximalist hangs, satirical embroidery New York-based artist Melissa Joseph’s felted works look almost whisper-quit. Depending on family photographs, Joseph’s faces become blurred on the sides such as the texture of memory with time and location. Khanna’s panels, meanwhile, refer to social-media image economy and Indian wedding theater; They swagar in the room and then bend the mirror. Abstinence and extreme excitement stand shoulder to shoulder, each is read more clearly.
Melissa joseph What do we leave behind
Some pace away, Boston artist Ricky Vasan Thank you A table and a look – domestic, diarstic and shrinks the epic of migration for disarmament. San Francisco-based Anoushka Mirchandani had a sex in her life in her life in her life, while American-Sri Lankan artist Shyama Golden put a flag for crisp, graphic clarity. It is all upwards from hereTogether, they argue that everyday – burnt well and watched well – can be necessary as any gorgeous story.
Of Ricky Vasan Thank you
Photo Credit: Ruben Diaz
Art of Anoushka Mirchandani | Photo Credit: Paul Roeo
Shyama Golden It is all upwards from here
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Non-pilgrimage, In which paintings, sculptures and textiles have been included, it is also a conscious step away from the state of subjugation that migratory art usually find itself. As Menon states in podcast, he wanted “to show that migrant tasks are thinking too much under stress … that they are taking their position and using it.”
Multi-known artist Kelly Sinpah Mary is entangled in leaves and learning with hybrids in her Indo-Caribbean heritage; His canvas feels like a haunted herberium that asks who the plant gets and who is allowed to grow. Jersey -based ending Ramakrishnan People under the sea Divers in myths and metamorphosis, braiding the South Asian cosmology with a restless eco-worry contemporary hand.
Kelly Sinpah Mary Violet’s Book: The Girl with 3 Eyes
Photo Credit: Christopher Burke Studio
Bear Ramakrishnan People under the sea
A thread moves in the show: the texture is considered as thought. Embroidery, textiles, tafting, and other physical intervention within artifacts are not just ornamentation, but lifted overweight as paint or sculpture. This sensitivity refers to the widespread ethos of Menon – a fashion and the way many young designers use crafts to produce form and meaning. “Crafts, clothes, art – they always talk to each other in our cultures,” they say. “I wanted the exhibition to reflect that conversation honestly.”
You clearly see in Canadian artist Kirat Kaur SourceA pomegranate flowing with its symbols of fertility sits comfortably in the place of painting, while a woman of a woman of Mirchandani is spread in a saree, the body disappears in the surroundings. Here, clothes, embroidery, and collages have made their own grip against oil and acrylic in galleries.
A job by Rajni Perera in group exhibition alien resident
Strading both worlds
JCA also started an artist residence with the show, and the first resident, San Francisco -based artist Niba AkiridD used its month in Jaipur to learn block printing from local artisans and spend time in the palace’s archives. Learning directly in the exhibition that has to bend her tasks: Night polo For the city’s horse riding, this time with women as women as players, Sleep study 1 And Sleep study 2 Tuck figures in block printed sheets. Public spectacle and personal tenderness, shoulder to shoulder – instead of returning home.
Suchitra Matai set free
Despite the glamor of the setting, alien resident Refuses to be an elite parade. Yes, sequins and saris and saturated colors, but do not hide from the cursion power structures that once ignore these very aesthetics. The pair are political: a high-shine Khanna next to Joseph’s Hush; Ramakrishnan’s ocean eco-muthology disrupts a magnificent room; The cool table of Vasan was blown on a large scale of South Asian food. Everywhere, the hangs insist that the difference is not a hierarchy.
alien resident Jaipur Center for Art
For years, migrant artists were presented as a colorful exception to someone else’s rule book. alien resident Provides a cleaner sentence: Let the diaspora write the rules. Stitch, Blur, Collage, proceed from the side notes that they have been presented for a long time. In a palace that once fixed the taste, the exhibition proposes a better standard: plural, stylish, important, and, most important, collective. Away from apologizing to migrants for their volume, it gives it a smell as music – tuning the room, and clearly to explain the conversation about what Indian art could be further further.
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Published – August 28, 2025 11:47 am IST
