LET ME TELL YOU A STORY… PART II

Akara, Mumbai | 01.07.2023 – 31.07.2023

As we turn the page to the second part of this exhibition at Akara Contemporary, a sense of curiosity, surprise and most of all as Kipling says, a number of ‘endless possibilities’ lie ahead of us. Yet, much like the first part, the intrinsic nature of storytelling prevails through the dialogue of art practices and artworks that interlace within themselves. The space now holds within it the nuances of part one and the stories it has woven together. Part two of the exhibition will not only connect within itself but also to the works that were housed here before, to the memory of what was.

As said in the first part of the show, it is the weaving of such stories that enables history to be made and told. Inspired by the writer and poet Rudyard Kipling, who born in Mumbai to a British India, was deeply influenced by its culture and people, is the simple, yet deep context and concept for this two-part exhibition.Bearing artists from different nationalities and backgrounds, Let Me Tell You A Story – Part II, in its whole, draws references to the simplest of all opposites – night and day. Duly, this exhibition bears witness to the later, works that allude to new beginnings, light, movement, awakening and the passage of time.