New Delhi’s Latitude 28 will host Overland, There’s Shorter Time to Dream, a group exhibition curated by Shristi Sainani, opening on 7 July 2026. Bringing together sixteen artists from diverse geographies, the exhibition examines migration beyond physical movement, focusing on memory, displacement, language, and evolving notions of belonging.
On view until 25 July, the exhibition features works across painting, sculpture, installation, textiles, and mixed media by artists including Khadim Ali, Kavitha Balasingham, Jyothidas K.V., Mihika Poddar, and Gaurang Naik, among others. Through personal and collective narratives, the show reflects on what is carried across borders, what is left behind, and how identities are reshaped through diasporic experiences.
About the Artists
The exhibition brings together sixteen artists whose practices span diverse geographies, materials, and conceptual approaches, collectively reflecting on migration, memory, and belonging.
Artists such as Khadim Ali and Samia Dzaïr draw from personal and ancestral histories shaped by displacement, using visual languages that interweave storytelling, politics, and cultural memory. Similarly, Sudipta Das and Rupaneethan Pakkiyarajah engage with migration through material and landscape, examining how identity is constructed through movement, networks, and loss.
Several artists foreground materiality and process as central to their inquiry. Kanchana Gupta and Gaurang Naik explore transformation through tactile engagement with substances and landscapes, while Devu Nenmara’s paintings emerge from lived experience, rooted in rural life, labour, and ecological rhythms. Juhikadevi Bhanjdeo extends this material sensitivity through textiles, using fabric as a metaphor for memory and identity.
Others expand the sensory and conceptual boundaries of their mediums. Janhavi Khemka’s print-based practice translates sound and vibration into visual form, while Jyothidas K.V. examines belonging through performative and research-driven engagements with food, geography, and community. Sajeev Visweswaran’s drawings offer quiet reflections on the intersections of the personal and political.
A younger generation of artists, including Mihika Poddar, Rhimon Bose, and Kavitha Balasingham, bring speculative, psychological, and image-based approaches to the fore—exploring themes of fear, perception, surrealism, and constructed realities. Firi Rehman’s multidisciplinary work situates these concerns within the Anthropocene, addressing ecological and social transformations.
Curator Shristi Sainani frames migration as an ongoing condition shaped by exile, adaptation, and cultural translation. The exhibition foregrounds emotional and cultural afterlives of movement, addressing themes such as surveillance, homesickness, and fractured language while emphasizing resilience and continuity.
Bhavna Kakar, Founder-Director of Latitude 28, notes that the exhibition creates space for “urgent conversations” around belonging and identity, highlighting migration as one of the defining conditions of contemporary life. By situating individual stories within broader global contexts, Overland invites viewers to reflect on the shifting, often contested idea of home.
The preview will be held on 7 July at 6 PM at Latitude 28, Defence Colony, with the exhibition open daily from 11 AM to 7 PM.
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