Threshold Art Gallery will open Intimate Terrains, a two-person exhibition featuring artists Shanthi Swaroopini (India) and Michal Glikson (Australia), on January 19, running through February 28, 2026. Curated by gallerist Tunty Chauhan, the exhibition invites viewers into a contemplative exchange between two practices rooted in material experimentation, memory, and embodied experience.
Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, both artists share a formative pedagogical ground that emphasizes process-driven making and art as lived response. Yet, their visual languages diverge beautifully: Swaroopini’s works turn inward to explore the body as a site of transformation, while Glikson’s itinerant scrolls extend outward, tracing landscapes and stories encountered across continents.
Swaroopini’s drawings and sculptures layer, erase, and reassert the human figure, registering the invisible pressures and quiet resistances shaping women’s inner lives. Her surfaces read like palimpsests, fragile yet enduring, marked by renewal and introspection. In contrast, Glikson’s scrolls and field films accumulate impressions from her travels between India and Australia, weaving gestures, atmospheres, and fleeting encounters into portable visual narratives. Drawing from the Patua and miniature traditions, her work merges storytelling, performance, and cartography.
“Shanthi works inward, using tactile, intimate forms to explore the body as a vessel of emotional and ancestral memory,” says Tunty Chauhan. “Michal works outward, mapping lived journeys and fleeting encounters through her travelling scrolls. One reveals the quiet architecture of interior experience; the other traces movement across the world. Together, they show that identity is not static but a continual negotiation—an intimate terrain shaped by place, memory, and motion.”
Through their distinct vocabularies, both artists view the artwork as a continuum of time and gesture: a vessel of human presence. Intimate Terrains thus becomes not only a meeting of two artistic visions, but also a meditation on belonging, transformation, and the stories that shape the spaces we inhabit.
Intimate Terrains will be on view Monday to Saturday, 11 AM–7 PM (Sunday by appointment) at Threshold Art Gallery, C-221, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi.
Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.
