THREADING THE HORIZON: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice
2022-2023, at KHOJ International Artists Association, Khirki Village, Delhi


Threading the Horizon: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice explores the quotidian experiences of violence faced by women and gendered others, manifested through invisibility, exclusion, inequality, and discrimination.

This project weaves together fourteen community-based initiatives across India, where acts of resilience surface through artistic strategies such as placemaking, amplifying voices, bearing witness, negotiating visibility, and foregrounding leisure, healing, and catharsis. These strategies dissect the everyday nature of gender-based violence, reframing it through the lens of an artist in the public realm.

In India’s urban context, precarity remains a perennial condition, disproportionately affecting women, queer and trans individuals, and marginalized communities. This raises critical questions: How does urbanization shape the experience of space and gendered violence?

The practices within this project propose a form of worldmaking, where encounters, engagements, and collective actions generate new cosmologies. A vision for an equitable future emerges through restitution, quietude, and the vitality of collective action.

This project was supported under the "Peripheries and Crossovers" program of KHOJ International Artists' Association. For further details and to access the exhibition brochure, please visit the following link.