Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art presents Where the River meets the Sea, a curated selection of works by six artists focused on contemporary textile-based practices. Conceptualised by Anupa Mehta, with a text by Goa based historian and curator Lina Vincent that contextualises textile practice in India, the exhibition investigates the dynamic possibilities of textile based art practice as seen in the works of a range of practitioners. “The river, a symbol of life’s journey, personal growth, memory, transformation, and hybridity, could be read as a metaphor for the creative and artistic impulse pulsing through an artist’s work. The point where it merges into the sea, it becomes part of a larger whole, a more universal truth.” The exhibition then is an invitation to reflect on the impulse pulsing through individual artists practice, even as it positions textile art as a medium that allows for (in this exhibition) reflection (also) on feminist practice.
