Diaries, Soliloquies and Stories we Tell | Curated by Prima Kurien

Art Incept is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition Diaries, Soliloquies and Stories we Tell, Curated by Prima Kurien. Showcasing the works of Ariba Akhlaque, Anirudh Acharya, Nanini Bagla Chirimar, Rajat Kumar and Rinku Choudhary

This exhibition inhabits the fragile threshold between remembrance and loss; a consciousness suspended, shaped by cultural inheritance, personal memory, and the quiet pressures of the social world. Within this space of in-betweenness, identity is neither fixed nor entirely unmoored; it flickers, like light passing through gauze. The works assembled here arise from that tremor. They gather what remains—a dried rose pressed between pages, an old postcard bearing a fading script, a broken tile salvaged from a once-familiar floor—and elevate these fragments into tender archives. Through such objects, grief and celebration become indistinguishable dialects within the same language of nostalgia.
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Here, painting is a pulse, felt with an emotion where the mundane is not overlooked but revered: a corner of a room, a threshold at dusk, the silence that lingers after departure. Atmosphere, here, becomes the protagonist. Landscapes emerge untethered to geography: tidal gardens suspended in indigo twilight, stairways rising into improbable skies, rooms that open into dreamlike horizons; utopian niches carved from longing—places one builds in order to dwell again. In them, memory bends toward myth, and loss seeds possibility.

The gentle, ever-shifting rhythm of daily life flows throughout. A woman moves through her home both as inhabitant and witness, her gestures overlapping like translucent veils. Tasks dissolve into thoughts; chaos softens into choreography. Rather than resisting fragmentation, she adapts, absorbs, and occasionally rejoices in it. Becoming, in the end, is a surreal and intimate labour—an act of rewriting the self as landscape, of fashioning shelter from memory and imagination alike. Between what was and what might be, a new interior opens: porous, luminous, and profoundly alive.