Gallery Art Positive

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Timeless Tales / Young Voices

Gallery Art Positive is honoured to present Timeless Tales / Young Voices at the Focus Art Fair, London, a vibrant exploration of Indian contemporary art featuring a carefully curated selection of works by both celebrated and emerging artists. Conceived as two interwoven chapters, the exhibition stages a dialogue between past and present, continuity and change, tracing how narrative traditions endure, transform, and find new resonance today.

Timeless Tales brings together leading contemporary artists such as Arpana Caur, Satish Gupta, Seema Kohli, Shuvaprasanna, and Shipra Bhattacharya, whose practices draw deeply on the myths, folklore, and epics of the Indian subcontinent. Their reinterpretations honour ancient stories while revealing strikingly modern perspectives. Alongside them, artists including Shampa Sircar Das, Dimpy Menon, Venkat Bothsa,  extend this lineage, embedding Indian mythology and philosophy within a distinctly contemporary visual language. Together, they create a luminous tapestry of Vedic traditions, oral histories, and epic storytelling, transforming timeless motifs into vivid, resonant expressions of India’s cultural heritage.

If Timeless Tales celebrates abundance of colour, pattern, and emotion, Young Voices offers a quiet counterpoint. This section introduces a new generation of artists including Harish Ojha, Neerja Divate, Debi Prasad Bhunia, and Poojan Gupta, who meditate on the fragile realities of our time like migration and displacement, contested borders, the slow erosion of rivers and land. Their reflections are subtle rather than didactic, marked by a pared-down aesthetic that is abstract, monochromatic, and materially experimental. Through unconventional media and layered meanings, their works command an understated yet potent presence.

Together these two chapters create a dynamic equilibrium. Timeless Tales draws viewers into a realm of myth and memory, while Young Voices opens a contemplative space where simplicity reveals complexity and the unseen becomes perceptible. Both invite the viewers to consider how stories survive: how they migrate across time, are re-authored by each generation, and continue to shape the possibilities of our collective future.