Srishati Art Gallery of Hyderabad unveiled the 15th edition of the emerging palettes

In his 15th edition, the Emerging palette returns to the Srishati Art Gallery in collaboration with Goethe-Jentrum Hyderabad, who presents young contemporary artists who are carrying forward the boundaries of materials and memory. Elected from over 300 entries, 11 part actors of this year detect various mediums from textiles and ceramics to steel, wood and video installation. They craft the plot contained in identity, related and transformation.

Last lineup – Aryama Somayaji, Deepanvita Das, Farhin Afza, Hasan Ali Qadwala, Manu N (Manu N), Moumita Basak, Nayanjayoti Burman, Narmal Modal, Pathik Sahu, Vishnu CR, and Yogesh Hadiya – a jury compression by a jury. And Lakshmi Nambiar, who also kills Srishti as the founder and curator.

This year’s curatorial focus is compelling, advancing the boundaries of materiality. The show highlights how artists are thinking of canvas and traditionally beyond, and are attached to textiles, ceramic, steel, found objects and videos. From stories in stitched installations to reuse of renunciation materials, each practice becomes a dialogue between form and idea, reminding the audience that the material can become a narrative force.

For Nirmal Modal, a graduate of the world, Vishwa-Bhalati University, this story emerges from soil. While working in Santiniketan, he attracts the terracotta temples and declining craftsmen in Murshidabad who once made him. “My job is a way to preserve stories with which I grew up,” they say, “Ceramic Memory keeps memory better than paper.”

Manu N (Manuya), who studied in Bangalore School of Visual Arts and Karnataka Chitrakala Parshath, mixes industrial and natural materials to detect vulnerability and endurance in both nature and human body. In its stainless steel inflorescence, floral structures make branching clusters and patterns. The artwork reflects his interest in botanical systems and the small scale he run by him. Meanwhile, his organic, coral-like he explains, “Salt and terracotta are a symbol of land and ocean. This duality shows where we come from.”

Farohin Afa, who received an MVA in Graphic Arts from the University of Hyderabad in 2024, anchor his multimedia work in Muslim domestic life rituals. Its piece signs reflect everyday food spread as a political site. “My job examines the ideas of home, memory and identity,” she says. “It is personal, political at the same time.” By incorporating everyday household items, videos and textiles, AFZA works gradually but tremendously intelligence and marginalized.

Arima Somayaji, who holds BDS from the National Institute of Design, Andhra Pradesh, and serves MA, folklore, oral traditions and dreams contained in Fine Arts from Lasel College of the Arts, Singapore. Her Herloom Recipe Chart Series is in Acrylic Wash and Watercolor pencil on banana-fiber paper a decade ago. His job is a “maximum approach to abstraction” and discovers the language of cuisine as a cultural heritage. She explains, “They are gestures or whispers that are told to you as dishes … add a little bit of it, a little bit,” she tells. A culmination of ingredients, intensity and even intervals where history has left or left to fill itself for future generations.

Unit by Deepanavita Das | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Other painted artists present equally powerful physical narratives. Deepanvita Das provoked botanical decay and emotional vulnerability through Leird Lithograph and Sewing. Hasan Ali Kadiwala provides quiet, poetic capture around displacement and spiritual craving.

Moumita Basak uses recycled textiles and embroidery to reflect on gender and ecological justice. Nayanjyoti Burman creates delicate assembly from plywood and wire to detect migration and memory in Northeast India. Pathik Sahu works with iron, brass and tin to recover the disappeaned rural festivals and communal rhythms. Vishnu converts CR wood into large -scale sculptures that are inspired by the carpentry traditions and childhood riddles. Yogesh Hadiya layer social criticisms on satire and metaphor in dense woodcuts.

(Emerging Pales 15 is seen by Srishti Art Gallery, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, July first week)