Power, labour and the traces people leave behind
In Threading Landscapes, landscape is not exclusively natural. It also encompasses the political, social and material structures in which people live.
- Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt presents They Shoot Horses (2017), a monumental velvet curtain pierced by hundreds of steel nails. The work is both alluring and threatening, evoking associations with borders, exclusion, vulnerability and political history.
- Amol Patil presents five sculptures from The Shadow of Lustre (2024). Drawing on the history of Dalit communities and Mumbai’s working-class neighbourhoods, he explores how caste, labour and migration become inscribed in bodies, materials and architecture.
- With Ahmed Umar, the body itself becomes a landscape of memory, spirituality and diaspora. In Glowing Phalanges, he brings together Islamic traditions, devotional objects and personal experiences in an exploration of faith, agency and new forms of connection.
