towards minor gestures: intensities in the making: an exhibition by the recipients of the Emerging Artists Award (EAA+) 2024

towards minor gestures:
intensities in the making

With Ashis Dhali, Ashis Kumar Palei, Bhikari Pradhan, Kiran Mungekar, Partha Banik, Rahee Punyashloka, Richa Arya, Ritika Sharma, Soumava Das, Vipin Dhanurdharan with Untitled Kitchen

Recipients of the Emerging Artists Award (EAA+) 2024

Vadehra Art Gallery

D-53, Defence Colony, New Delhi - 110024

Opening Preview: 7 July | 6 PM onwards

On view: 8 July - 7 August | 10 AM - 6 PM | Mon - Sat

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art in collaboration with Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation is pleased to present towards minor gestures: intensities in the making—a group exhibition showcasing the ten recipients of the Emerging Artists Award (EAA+) 2024. The EAA+ platform builds a year-long engagement with young artists within a peer-led model of dialogue, exchange, mentorship and making.

As the cumulative point of the forum, the exhibition serves as a space to gather all of the explorations that have emerged from the shared cohort experience into a collaborative, collective articulation. The practices within this exhibition span engagements with various registers of image-making and image encounters, different forms of space-making, research and documentation-based outcomes, as well as discursive, participatory encounters. The exhibition will be presented alongside active programming through a variety of artist interventions, workshops, and dialogues.

Within the aegis of this show, the exhibition considers what it means to think in relation with one another and come together in active inquiry. It reads this field as continually incipient, active with tendencies and agitations that hold the potential for different affective coordinates for perception and experience to come into being. Exploring Erin Manning’s notion of the minor gesture—as the force that punctuates the process of an event as it unfolds, moving it in “new and divergent directions that alter the orientation of where the event might otherwise have settled”.  We are drawn to the different ways in which practices hold themselves in movement, mapping the shifts of its internal rhythms and inclinations, tuning into the forces that sit within the interstices of its many possibilities.

We thank our residency partner Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation.
We are also grateful for the support of Vadehra Art Gallery towards the making of this exhibition.

Image courtesy: Soumava Das, detail from installation Meanwhile Spaces: Between A View Obscure and A Vision Pure, 2026