L: …ing_05 Oil, sand, mud, cement, distemper, adhesive, acrylic, and enamel on canvas 96 x 60 inches 2016 - 2025 R: …ing_04 Oil on canvas 96 x 72 inches 2023 - 2025
Project 88 presents Anupam Roy’s second solo exhibition …ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty.
"Anupam presents new works spanning drawing, painting, writing, sound, video, sculpture, posters, and zines. Produced in a collective spirit, often in collaboration with companions, colleagues, peers, friends, partners, and comrades, these works refuse closure, instead tracing recurring patterns of collective seeing, sensing, and remembering.
Anupam conceives of land and language as inseparable, co-constituting forces. The varied presence of human and non-human beings gives rise to dialects, narratives, and memory. Language, in turn, bears the imprint of land. Neither land nor language is stable. Both are mutable, continually reshaped through contact, yet each retains sedimented traces of what it once carried. Here sovereignty emerges as a custodianship shared across multiple forms of life.
Image courtesy: The artist and Project88 Image Credit: Anil Rane
Anupam’s works assemble fragments of the flora that endure in memory, narratives transmitted but never directly witnessed, images that deviate yet cohabit within a shared surface. Such fragmenting resists submission into a singular narrative. They remain dispersed, provisional, and incomplete, mirroring lifeworlds and relations fractured, and destabilized through the governing violence of state and market.
The title refers to this sense of ongoingness. It points to both the violence of extraction and enclosure, and to the persistence of voices that refuse silence. The exhibition stays with this continuum, dwelling spaces for other ways of living, speaking, and belonging, in a conjuncture of hegemonic normalization of sceneries without sovereignty."
Image courtesy: The artist and Project88 Image Credit: Anil Rane
About the Artist
Anupam is a multidisciplinary artist and pedagogue based in Delhi, India. His practice consistently questions the limits of representational politics in contemporary visual culture, foregrounding the entanglements of land and labour struggles and the dispossessed lives of surplus populations in the precarious circuits of global capitalism. Anupam has an MA in contemporary visual art from Ambedkar University, Delhi and a second MA in Fine Art from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He presently teaches in the Department of Art, Media, and Performance at Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, Uttar Pradesh.
His works have been presented in major international exhibitions and festivals, including Asia Now (Paris, 2024), Colomboscope Festival (Sri Lanka), and the New Museum Triennial (New York, 2018). His works are in the permanent collections of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (Delhi) and Ashmolean Museum (Oxford). Anupam’s contributions have been recognized through awards including the Prince Claus CAREC Award (2025) and the FICA Emerging Artist Award (2018).
Date 17-10-2025