A group Exhibition at Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai & Method
Venue and Date:
- Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai — 14th August to 21st September
Method, 86, Nagindas Master Rd, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001 - Method Delhi — 17th August to 21st September
Method, D Block, Basement, D-59, Block D, Defence Colony, New Delhi, Delhi 110024
Description
Method presents The Parliament Is Now In Session, a powerful group exhibition hosted simultaneously at Method Kala Ghoda, Mumbai and Method Delhi. The show showcases diverse artistic voices and confronts the urgent realities of freedom, dissent, and resistance in contemporary India.
There are days when silence feels complicated. This is not one of them. The Parliament Is Now In Session opened in Method Kala Ghoda and Method Delhi around the time of India’s Independence Day—14th and 17th August respectively—not in celebration, but in confrontation. While the nation marks another year of independence, this exhibition, ongoing till 21st September, looks at the widening gap between freedom as symbol and freedom as lived reality.
Across India today, dissent is punished, identities are policed, and memory is rewritten. Activists vanish into prisons without trial. Villages are erased in the name of development. Queer and caste-oppressed bodies are brutalised, then blamed. Protest sites become crime scenes, and headlines become weapons.
In this atmosphere, art becomes more than expression. It becomes evidence. Interruption. Resistance.
The artists in this exhibition do not speak in one voice. Their practices span regions, languages, and forms—but each carries an urgency that cannot be aestheticised. Some works speak from the frontlines. Others dig quietly beneath the surface. Together, they refuse the convenience of forgetting.
You will encounter the body as an archive, the land as witness, the image as an indictment. These works reckon with the violence of laws and the failures of language. They ask: Who gets to belong? Who decides what is history, and what is erased? Who gets heard—and who is made invisible?
This is not an invitation to observe. It is a call to pay attention. There is no final statement here. No neat takeaway. No performance of neutrality. Only a floor that remains open. A session that refuses to end.
List of participating artists –
The exhibition brings together a diverse line-up of artists across both cities. Participating artists in Delhi + Mumbai are Anurag Basak, Bhanu Shrivastav, Gigi Scaria (via Chemould Prescott), Gurdev Singh, M Thamshangpha (via Anant Art), Mohd. Intiyaz, Revant Dasgupta, Riya Premchand Chandwani, Shamim Akhtar Khan (via Strangers House Gallery), and Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri. Showcasing in Mumbai are Krithika Sriram, Osheen Siva, Sajid Wajid Shaikh x Stuti Kumar, and Tyler. Exhibiting in Delhi are Fiza Hussain, Gargi Chandola, Hari Kishan, Harun Al Rashid (via Dhi Contemporary), Inder Salim, Nitheen Ramalingam, Prabhakar Pachpute (via Experimenter), Rahee Punyashloka, Siddharth Soni, Tahsin Akhtar, and Zoya Singh.
About Method
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn art introduced me to the revolution!”
– Albert Einstein
It’s unclear as to whether Einstein was talking about a political or scientific revolution, but it is evident that art and breaking away are intermingled at the core.
Method is an introspective and “extrospective” approach to art and the world in which it currently exists. By acknowledging that limitlessness is an inherent characteristic of creativity,
we fall beyond the domain of predetermined outcomes not only as artists but as a community.
In doing so, we transpose and expand with the movement of art. This cultivates collaboration and experimentation for the purpose of expression as well as discovery.
Method has galleries in Mumbai & New Delhi.
