Kaalchakra कालचक्र

This exhibition draws from South Asian cosmologies and ecological rhythms, where time is understood as a cycle rather than a line. In these traditions, the 'Kaalchakra' or the wheel of time is an ever-turning force, echoing the rotations of the Earth, the phases of the moon, the pulse of breath and blood. It resists the modern notion of time as linear, where events, memories, and experiences have clear beginnings and ends. In trying to control and understand time, we have fallen out of sync with the very cycles that sustain us. This dissonance is felt in our bodies, our ecosystems, and our collective psyche. 'Kaalchakra' proposes a return to rhythms that inhabit every organic system, in the hope of reconnecting with our internal cycles. Twenty-four artists respond to the twelve months of the year, each month shared between two voices. This framework, unfolding over a 24-hour loop, invites the viewer to experience time as breath, as tide, as repetition with variation. The works span sound, sculpture, installation, and image, evoking the textures of rain, heat, decay, stillness, and bloom. The show uses art and design as engines to activate these enduring ecological rhythms. Rather than presenting time as something to chase or conquer, this exhibition offers it as something to inhabit. To live cyclically is to allow space for return: seasons, emotions, memories, and selves. 'Kaalchakra' does not seek resolution. It invites us to reimagine our lives not as a race toward endings, but as a deep, looping participation in something ongoing, natural, and profoundly human, so that we might better understand our place in the cosmic spectrum. Curated by Daksh Goel & Oishi Roy Dutta.