Project 88 in Mumbai is currently hosting the second solo exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Anupam Roy titled “…ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty.” Running from September 11 to October 31, 2025, the exhibition was inaugurated with a preview on the opening evening.
Anupam Roy’s new body of work in this exhibition spans diverse media including drawing, painting, writing, sound, video, sculpture, posters, and zines. The works are characterized by a collaborative spirit, often involving contributions from peers, friends, and colleagues. The exhibition emphasizes the theme of ongoingness, reflected in the title “…ing,” which points to the continuous struggles against the violence of extraction and enclosure while asserting the persistence of resistant voices.
Central to Anupam’s work is the inseparability of land and language as co-constituting forces that bear diverse dialects, narratives, and memories. The artist explores how these elements are mutable yet retain traces of their past, framing sovereignty as a shared custodianship across different forms of life. The exhibited works assemble fragments ranging from flora to narratives and images that resist singular interpretations, mirroring the fractured lifeworlds destabilized by hegemonic state and market violence.
Anupam’s artistic vision
Anupam Roy is a Delhi-based artist and educator with a strong academic background, holding MAs in contemporary visual art and fine art from Ambedkar University and De Montfort University, UK, respectively. He currently teaches at Shiv Nadar University’s Department of Art, Media, and Performance. His practice critically addresses issues of land, labor struggles, and the precarious conditions of surplus populations globally.
Anupam’s work has been showcased internationally across reputed platforms such as Asia Now in Paris, Colomboscope Festival in Sri Lanka, and the New Museum Triennial in New York. His art is part of prestigious collections including the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Among his accolades are the 2025 Prince Claus CAREC Award and the 2018 FICA Emerging Artist Award.
The exhibition “…ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty” offers visitors a space to engage with complex narratives of land, memory, and sovereignty through a lens of collective experience and resistance.
Dates: September 11 to October 31, 2025
Location: Project 88, Mumbai
This exhibition invites reflection on other ways of living, speaking, and belonging amid ongoing hegemonic forces.
Images Featured: Anupam Roy, …ing_02, oil on canvas, 2025 and Anupam Roy, …ing_01, oil on canvas, 2025. Image courtesy: The artist and Project 88
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