Presented by Great Banyan Art at Bikaner House, Portraits in Time: Power, Presence, and Identity Across Centuries brings together fifty works spanning centuries and geographies, creating a cross-continental, cross-century conversation on representation. Curated by Sonali Batra, the exhibition traces the evolution of the human face as a site of expression, power, and memory, approaching portraiture not as a fixed genre but as an evolving inquiry into identity and visibility.
Installed chronologically, the exhibition unfolds as a visual journey through time. From early European academic realism to modernist expression and contemporary reinterpretations of the human image, the works trace a trajectory from formal depiction to psychological depth and conceptual reflection, revealing how our understanding of the self has shifted across eras.
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