Avtar Foundation for Arts Hits Home exhibition. Sometimes you gaze at someone else’s house, sometimes you are moving quietly in the middle of your living room, sometimes you stand in front of prickly wires that divide two countries and perhaps also divide homes.
At home – Shruti marks a significant beginning to display modern and contemporary art in Chennai, the discovery of the space, related, identity and memory cured by Shruti Parthasarathy, which is within the new permanent location of the foundation in MRC Nagar, Ra Puram.
“The primary objective of the Foundation is to address the shortage of public or private institutions in Chennai that show contemporary and modern South Asia art to the public. It aims to bridge the difference for information about the current developments in the South Asian art scene, which is both modern and contemporary art,” called the avatar and Ever Foundation’s Founder Johal.
The exhibition shows the works of seminal artists such as vs Getonde, Zarina Hashmi, and Shilpa Gupta, Arshi Irshad Ahmedzai, Baran investigates contemporary arts through the works of Ijalal. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The exhibition explains in the idea what really the house means – whether it is a physical structure or living space, as a marker of a cultural identity, or as a memory of the location lost for time, displacement or longing. Shruti says, “What does it mean for different perceptions of the house, home as a shelter or asylum, and separate people.”
The exhibition begins with the concept of the exhibition house, discovering the works of seminal artists like vs Getonde, Zarina and discovering contemporary arts through the works of Shilpa Gupta, Arshi Irshad Ahmedzai, Baran Ijalal, and many others, which begins with the concept of the exhibition house, which begins with a solid, architectural exploration, which starts with arcate exemption in the house and more progression for more progression. Starts with volume.
Artist Ayushi Anil Panchal’s Inside Story II, 2023, is characterized by a zinc plate, two fans are painted on the plate, which represents the memory of using a fan to cool when returning home in summer. The plate with its minute carvings shows a tight but cute place, something that represents the house growing up in the house.
Cityscape
The vs are an abstract piece of Gateonde, titled Untitledal (CityScape) -1971, a depiction of Bombay Skyline. “Gateond’s large watercolor wash is from a brief, low-term phase, before he moved into large monochrome oils, often designed for his keen interest in Zen Buddhism.
A series of artist Zarina by Mango Tree -1988, reflecting a ripe mango seed in different ways, perhaps a depiction of the mango tree of the artist in his courtyard. “Here, Homer lives only in memory; it is about the longing and disadvantage of a childhood house. There is a recurrent theme in the house of his work,” Shruti says.
Shilpa Gupta, India’s 100 Handdron Maps (2019) invited the gallery visitors to draw India maps, which then were leveled to demonstrate that no map is fixed, and that boundaries are not imaginary.
The show is open to Wednesday to Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm, from 10 October, number 57, third floor, Satyadeva Avenue, MRC Nagar, Raja Annamalai Puram, Chennai.
Published – August 26, 2025 01:08 pm IST
