Houses I Almost Lived In exhibition in New Delhi brings together five artists to examine memory, architecture, and lived experience through diverse materials and forms. Presented at Latitude 28, the exhibition reflects on spaces once inhabited, nearly entered, or only imagined, and how they continue to shape our inner worlds. It shifts focus from physical structures to emotional and sensory traces, showing how architecture embeds itself in memory through time, movement, and lived experience, even as cities rapidly transform.
Artists And Practices
The exhibition features Mahen Perera, Pooja Iranna, Raj Jariwala, Samit Das, and Shalina Vichitra, each engaging with space through distinct materials and conceptual approaches.
Shalina Vichitra uses cartographic forms to create layered, imagined maps that reflect personal histories and ideas of belonging. Pooja Iranna works with materials like cement, pins, mirrors, and lattices to construct and dismantle grid-like structures, commenting on urban expansion and erasure. Raj Jariwala explores systems of mapping and numerical order, questioning how measured space relates to lived experience.
Architecture of Silence: Resurrection of Landscape | Untitled / Time. II | Artwork by: Samit Das and Mahen Perera | Image Credit: Latitude 28
Samit Das draws on personal and historical archives to create works that explore the quiet persistence of memory in cities and landscapes. Mahen Perera extends painting into stitched and tactile forms, capturing how materials hold bodily and emotional traces of place.
Curatorial Vision
Bhavna Kakar, Founder-Director of Latitude 28, frames the exhibition as a reflection on how deeply places remain with us over time. She observes that not only the homes we live in, but also those we nearly enter or imagine, shape our understanding of comfort, distance, and belonging.
She notes that each artist approaches this idea through a distinct sensibility, yet together they create a shared dialogue on memory, space, and transformation. The exhibition invites viewers to pause and consider how environments continue to influence thought and feeling even after they change or disappear.
Key Themes
The Houses I Almost Lived In exhibition in New Delhi explores architecture as something that moves beyond physical form and enters lived consciousness. Through repetition, touch, and time, built environments become part of memory, leaving lasting impressions.
The exhibition also reflects on the rapid pace of urban change, in which cities are constantly being rebuilt. In this context, the artists highlight how memory resists erasure, holding fragments of spaces that continue to shape how we experience the present.
Exhibition Details
- Title: Houses I Almost Lived In
- Artists: Mahen Perera, Pooja Iranna, Raj Jariwala, Samit Das, Shalina Vichitra
- Venue: Latitude 28, B-74, Ground Floor, Block B, Defence Colony, New Delhi, 110024
- Preview: 23 April 2026, 5:30 PM onwards
- Dates: 23 April – 25 May 2026
- Timings: Monday to Sunday, 11 AM – 7 PM
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Cover Image: Complex Symphony G, 2026 | Oil pigment on two layers of acrylic sheets | Artwork by: Pooja Iranna | Image Credit: Latitude 28
Akanksha is an Associate Editor at Abir Pothi, writing on contemporary art and creating engaging videos that highlight artists and make art accessible to wider audiences.
