LATITUDE 28 presents The Personal is Mythical, curated by Bhavna Kakar, a group exhibition featuring new bodies of work by Bhajju Shyam, Neha Sahai, and Viraj Khanna. This exhibition explores how private narratives, memories, and artistic vocabularies can evoke timeless, universal themes, transforming the deeply personal into the resonantly mythical. It begins with the premise that myth is not simply an ancient inheritance but a living mode of meaning-making, shaped by contemporary experience. Myths help us tell stories about ourselves, our cultures, our fears, and our desires, giving form to memory, imagination, and identity.
The Personal is Mythical, curated by Bhavna Kakar. This compelling group show features new bodies of work by Bhajju Shyam, Neha Sahai, and Viraj Khanna. The preview is scheduled for 25th July 2025, 6 PM onwards at LATITUDE 28, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, and the exhibition will remain on view until 18th August 2025.
Bringing together three distinctive artistic voices, the show challenges binaries between folk and contemporary, craft and concept, offering a critical response to histories of erasure and appropriation while placing living myth-making at the heart of artistic practice.
Exhibition Highlights:
Artists:
- Bhajju Shyam: A celebrated Gond artist whose vibrant, intricate paintings preserve and reinterpret ancestral cosmologies.
- Neha Sahai: A self-taught artist whose surreal, introspective works celebrate feminine energy, weaving dreamlike imagery with poetic storytelling.
- Viraj Khanna: A multidisciplinary artist exploring the theatrical construction of identity through assemblage, textiles, and post-pop iconography.
Curated By: Bhavna Kakar, Founder-Director, LATITUDE 28
Exhibition Details:
- Title: The Personal is Mythical
- Preview: 25th July 2025 | 6 PM onwards
- Venue: LATITUDE 28, F-208, First Floor, Lado Sarai, New Delhi – 110030
- On View: 25th July – 18th August 2025
- Timings: Monday to Saturday, 11 AM – 7 PM
Established in 2010, LATITUDE 28 has redefined contemporary gallery practice with its lateral, avant-garde approach. The gallery stands as a vanguard in nurturing and showcasing emerging South Asian artists by championing experimental material-based practices while fostering meaningful connections among stakeholders -artists, collectors, patrons, arts professionals, and enthusiasts. By prioritising mentoring and capacity building, it shapes creative practices, through programs that drive cultural discourse across the region and beyond.
Pari tiwari is a third year english literature student at Delhi University. She is interested in art, Feminism, politics of representation, literature, philosophy, film, and photography.
