Artists: Anju Dodiya, Astha Butail, Atul Dodiya, Atul Bhalla, Biraaj Dodiya, Gigi Scaria, Faiza Butt, Jagannath Panda, Joya Mukerjee Logue, Praneet Soi, Ranbir Kaleka, Sachin George Sebastian, Shailesh B.R., Shilpa Gupta, Shrimanti Saha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sunil Gupta, Zaam Arif
As a colloquialism, boundaries are often considered restraints. But in structure, boundaries are rather liminal in how they hold onto possibility; a precipice, an edge beyond which lies the potential of this or that, of either–or. In the human condition, the experience of the body is rather enmeshed in the language of boundaries. There is physicality and physiology to consider, then also the emotional body or mind, whose sensorial and cognitive natures guide our affinity and aversion towards something or against it. By consequence, we come upon intimacy as relational and ecstasy as a depth of feeling, which are true by definition, but a lived experience is much more complex. The boundaries at which we exist can draw us deeper inwards or further outwards, changing how we belong to ourselves, each other, a moment in time or a sliver of place. Now, by consequence, intimacy becomes a granular knowing and ecstasy becomes a shedding. Still, whether intimate or ecstatic, our belonging is rooted to the cliff at which we stand and comprehend the world that lies within us and by virtue of our standing, the outside, where all carries on elsewhere and furthermore.
