There are days when silence feels complicit. This is not one of them.
The Parliament Is Now In Session opened in Method Kala Ghoda & Method Delhi around the time of India’s Independence Day not in celebration, but in confrontation. While the nation marks another year of independence, this exhibition examines the widening gap between freedom as a symbol and freedom as a lived reality.
Across India today, dissent is punished, identities are policed, and memory is rewritten. Activists vanish into prisons without trial. Villages are erased in the name of development. Queer and caste-oppressed bodies are brutalized, then blamed. Protest sites become crime scenes, and headlines become weapons.
In this atmosphere, art becomes more than expression. It becomes evidence. Interruption. Resistance.
The artists in this exhibition do not speak in one voice. Their practices span regions, languages, and forms—but each carries an urgency that cannot be aestheticised. Some works speak from the frontlines. Others dig quietly beneath the surface. Together, they refuse the convenience of forgetting.
You will encounter the body as an archive, the land as witness, the image as an indictment. These works reckon with the violence of laws and the failures of language. They ask: Who gets to belong? Who decides what is history, and what is erased? Who gets heard—and who is made invisible?
This is not an invitation to observe. It is a call to pay attention. There is no final statement here. No neat takeaway. No performance of neutrality.
Only a floor that remains open. A session that refuses to end.
The Parliament Is Now In Session.
The exhibition will continue until 21st September 2025.
Date 19-8-2025