About the Gallery:
Strangers House is a Gallery of Contemporary Art initiated through perspectives on alternate art history, universalism, black consciousness, Cheikh Anta Diop and Ambedkar. Based in Bombay with deep connections to Africa , Latin America and India. We seek Universalism in Art as a precursor to a visual imaginary that encompasses aesthetic philosophies that could be drawn between Africa, Latin America and India, that are read from the writings of Dr BR Ambedkar and Cheikh Anta Diop, founded on humanity emerging from secularism and black consciousness. We practice a material reality of production through artisanship and simplicity – wood, bronze, terracotta, print, ceramic and paint that define us as artists. Inviting Strangers as Guests, it is a house that enters a long existing dialogue that Bombay makes us inhabit in its architecture, people, spontaneity and function.
About the Exhibition:
The Panorama Beyond the Colour Line features artists engaging in alternate materialism, challenging socio-political and aesthetic norms. Integrating indigenous chromatic vocabularies often mislabeled as tribal art, it critiques the dominance of English and Euro-American Modernist paradigms in global art. These paradigms marginalize non-Western epistemologies and suppress polyvocal dialogues. The exhibition interrogates materiality, chromatic politics, and spatial poetics, fostering experimental practices that disrupt hierarchical representations. It redefines the interplay between local and global, canonical and marginal, and vernacular and institutional, amplifying inclusive and critical engagement in contemporary art. Through this, it addresses classification crises and promotes diverse art discourses.
The exhibition is on view at Young Collectors Hub at Stir Art Gallery, 2 North Drive, Chattarpur Farms, New Delhi from February 1 to 9