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 that echoes the rotations of the Earth, the phases of the moon, and 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 measure 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 these ideas through sound, sculpture, installation, and image. Their works evoke the textures of rain, heat, decay, stillness, and bloom. This framework, unfolding over a continuous 24-hour loop, invites the viewer to experience time as breath, as tide, as repetition with variation. Art and design serve here 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: 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. Curators: Daksh Goel, Oishi Roy Dutta Exhibition Design: OSA Studio Artists: Adrietta Myburg, Afrasinei Alexandra Maria, Alejandra miguell Dada, Anais Ost, Ankita Kashyap, Ece Batur, Hamza, Jasmin Dhika, José Cárdenas Lorca, Junghun Lee, Kai Yan, Ma Pak Yin (Momo), Marleigh Basley, Meet Ahluwalia, Ross Deeley, Sadie Amelie Reese, Sakshi Sharma, Sham Salim (Aslam Sham Architects), Shubhangam Singh, Victoria Kosasie, Yihan Pan