GAP Contemporary presents The Still Life of Sentiments

A Home woven with stories, staccatos, framed works, furniture, and fervour

Curated by Priyanshi S
Preview: 10 September 2026, 6:00 PM onwards On view: 11 September – 10 October 2026 Venue: GAP Contemporary, F-213B, Old M.B. Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi – 110030

The exhibition is open to all from 11 September to 10 October 2026, Monday to Saturday, 11:00 AM – 6:30 PM at GAP Contemporary, F-213B, Old M.B. Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi – 110030.

Gallery Art Positive is having an identity reform. After two decades as Gallery Art Positive, we are delighted, and actually ecstatic, to be reborn as GAP Contemporary.

The gallery marks this new chapter with The Still Life of Sentiments, a new exhibition curated by Priyanshi S, which brings together contemporary art, furniture, objects, books and design within a deliberately domestic setting.

Rather than treating the gallery as a conventional white cube, the exhibition will transform the 5,000 sq. ft. space into a series of lived-in environments—a living room, a study and an anti-room—where artworks sit alongside furniture, greenery, lighting, books and objects. The intention is less to prescribe how art should be encountered and more to consider how art might actually exist in our lives: around us, among our things, and as part of the spaces we inhabit.

The exhibition brings together artists and design practices across disciplines and generations, creating an environment that is as much about contemporary living as it is about contemporary art.

Among the artists being shown are Bashobi Tiwari, Boito, Enii Living, Meghna Patpatia Singh, Poorvi Sultania, Pranshu Thakore, Protyush Paul, Suryan Saurabh, Urvi Sethna, and Vikalp Durga Mishra, among others.

The design component includes studios such as Hatsu, Objectry, Phantom Hands, This and That, Turn Black Official, Umber Furniture, Vahe and Vakr Studio, alongside object and lighting practices including Fig Living, Kathakaar Studio, Dhruv Agarwwal, and Clay Ventures.

The exhibition will also include a selection of books and other, more unexpected additions.

An exhibition that keeps changing

Like a lot of Priyanshi’s exhibitions, this one keeps morphing through its duration. At the heart of The Still Life of Sentiments is the concept of dynamism—where the exhibition keeps getting amended, pieces being added, deducted, altered throughout its duration. Some will leave because they have found new homes; others may simply make way for something else. As a result, the exhibition will not remain entirely static from opening to closing.

The format is intended to encourage audiences to return to the gallery, and always find something new to engage with.

Curated by Priyanshi S

Priyanshi S is an art advisor, curator and writer whose practice engages with South Asian art, its history and culture. Her work is particularly concerned with making art more accessible and questioning the traditional barriers between art and its audiences, including those created by language.

She was the Curatorial Director of Pulp Society, New Delhi, and advises contemporary galleries and collections. Her recent curatorial projects include Taqiya Kalaam for Delhi Contemporary Art Week in 2025 and भीड़तंत्र x लोकतंत्र at Latitude 28 in 2023. She was also Curator and Director of the Amdavad Art-é-Summit 2022 and a reviewer for the 2022 Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowship applications in Arts and Culture Management.

She has worked with contemporary and modern South Asian galleries on institutional acquisitions and international art fairs, with art foundations and on cultural projects including a collateral project at the 56th Venice Biennale. She has written extensively on contemporary art and art markets, contributing to Art Residencies of India (Studio 118, Mumbai, 2021) and SMART ARTIST (Artbuzz India, 2019), as well as GQ India, AD India, Vogue India and Take on Art, among others.

From Art Positive to GAP Contemporary

Founded by Anu Bajaj in 2005, Gallery Art Positive has spent more than two decades building a programme around contemporary art, while working with both established and emerging artists, collectors and cultural institutions. Its Lado Sarai space has also hosted talks, workshops and the flagship GAP Art Award, alongside its exhibition programme, and the art advisory practice.

In its 20th year, the gallery is rebirthing as GAP Contemporary.

The rebrand marks an evolution rather than a departure: a new identity for a gallery that has grown alongside the changing Indian art, and culture landscape, and the curiosity and colour of South Asian art across the globe. GAP Contemporary will continue its work with artists and collectors while expanding its engagement with art, design, culture, wellness and contemporary living.

The Still Life of Sentiments is the first exhibition in this new chapter.