Overland, There's Shorter Time to Dream At Latitude 28

'LATITUDE 28 presents Overland, There's Shorter Time to Dream, a group exhibition curated by Shristi Sainani. Bringing together sixteen artists from diverse geographical and cultural contexts, the exhibition examines migration as a condition that extends beyond physical movement to encompass questions of memory, language, displacement, belonging, and identity.

Migration is often understood through departure and arrival. Yet between these moments lies a more complex terrain shaped by adaptation, longing, inheritance, and survival. The exhibition considers the emotional and cultural afterlives of movement, attending to the ways individuals negotiate relationships to home, land, language, and selfhood across changing geographies.

Drawing from sustained research into migratory histories and diasporic experiences, Overland, There's Shorter Time to Dream reflects on the transformations that occur through exile, resettlement, and cultural translation. The exhibition examines the fault lines produced by conflict and displacement while foregrounding acts of remembrance, resilience, and continuity. Questions of surveillance, belonging, memory, and cultural inheritance emerge throughout the exhibition, revealing migration as an ongoing condition rather than a singular event.

Across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, textile, and multidisciplinary practices, the participating artists engage with personal and collective histories shaped by movement. Their works consider what is carried across borders, what is left behind, and what continues to persist through memory and cultural transmission. Together, they offer reflections on home as a shifting and contested space, one that is continually reconstructed through experience.

Emerging from curator Shristi Sainani's ongoing engagement with narratives of diaspora and deracination, the exhibition offers a space to reflect on movement not only as a demographic reality but as a deeply human experience. In bringing together these practices, Overland, There's Shorter Time to Dream invites viewers to consider the enduring ways migration continues to shape contemporary life across generations and geographies.'

'Migration, often seen as movement from place of birth to a foreign destination, is a measure of global bilateral flows. The country of destination becomes the migrant's new refuge. We speak to the migrant in soft whispers to say, You are welcome, we accept you in your alien. Perhaps, another— the other—but with warmth of our arms, you are invited to rest.'

'Overland, There's Shorter Time to Dream is borne from a need to empathise with the various shifts in tongue, body, land, traits, space, frames, and scapes that happen as a result of migration. The exhibition examines the intersections that distort language through prolonged exile, the fissures and fault lines that serve as sites for conflict and displacement, and the homesickness that accompanies movement across borders.

The project emerged from an ongoing inquiry into migratory practices and diasporic narratives, shaped by both research and personal experience. It reflects on resettlement, memory, longing, and the continual negotiation of belonging.' — Shristi Sainani, curator. 

Overland, There's Shorter Time to Dream is on view until 25th July, 2026, at LATITUDE 28, Delhi.

Images and text courtesy Latitude 28. 

Words Platform Desk
Date 16.7.2026