On display are artworks ranging from varied mediums–paintings, sculptures, ceramics to photographs, textiles and installations, that provide viewers with an all-sensory experience of femininity and reclamation of sensuality. Curated by Nandita V. Shastri, eighteen artists come together to express their journeys through the landscapes of their bodies via prisms of “self-musing.”

The female body has long been painted by men, whether it is the modest Mother Mary or the vanity instilled Suzannas and Venuses with their mirrors and boudoir scenes. Early feminists used their bodies too, but aggressively, in order to fight patriarchy and misogyny. In lieu of the former, this exhibition aims to embrace the indigenous expression of Sringara and Rati and celebrates the female form, not as sexual objects coveted as “possessions,” but rather explores the relationship between women and their “gaze of self”.