The exhibition “Garden of Weeds” opens at Sakshi Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai, on November 11, 2025, showcasing a distinctive selection of photographs from the collection of V. Sanjay Kumar. Curated to highlight nine celebrated artists, this presentation explores how photography has evolved as a medium through experiments with form, psychology, and politics.
The artists featured in the “Garden of Weeds” exhibition at Sakshi Gallery include Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Margaret Bourke-White, Olafur Eliasson, Paolo Ventura, Rameshwar Broota, Robert Longo, Shirin Neshat, Vivan Sundaram, and Chuck Close.
Among the works featured is a historic 1946 portrait of Mahatma Gandhi and his advisers by Margaret Bourke-White, recognized for her wartime images. The exhibition moves seamlessly through diverse photographic practices, with Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s enigmatic pictures employing blur and multiple exposures to investigate psychological themes. His series “The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater” offers dreamlike and symbolic portraits. Vivan Sundaram, meanwhile, bridges personal and collective memory by weaving together images from three generations in photomontages based on archival family photographs.
The exhibition also includes reinterpretations by Robert Longo, whose “Freud Cycle” stems from rare photographs of Sigmund Freud’s Vienna apartment, rendered as pigment prints. Shirin Neshat’s contributions from the “Women of Allah” series probe the complexities of identity, faith, and resistance faced by women in the Middle East. The show further features works by Chuck Close, Olafur Eliasson, Paolo Ventura, and Rameshwar Broota, each of whom expands the possibilities of photographic expression.
Spanning from November 11 to December 6, the exhibition runs daily from 11 am to 6 pm, excluding Sundays, Mondays, and public holidays.
Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.
