Shared Worlds - 15 years of Exhibit320

Shared Worlds

15 Years of Exhibit 320

To mark a landmark anniversary, Shared Worlds is a sweeping and inclusive exhibition that brings together a dynamic constellation of artists. And to accommodate and provide a comprehensive framework, the exhibition embraces a deliberately open and generative premise, one that privileges multiplicity over singularity, divergence over cohesion. The result is a richly layered, transhistorical and transmaterial survey that reflects both the gallery’s legacy and its forward-looking ethos.

This plurality speaks to a shift from the autonomy of the art object to a more relational and situational understanding of art-making. The exhibition becomes a space not of isolated masterpieces but of entangled dialogues between past and present, form and content, self and world —where meaning is shaped through proximity and conversation.

Three intersecting threads guide this expansive presentation: abstraction as a materially rooted and culturally resonant inquiry; identity and gender as evolving, performative constructs shaped by personal and political urgencies; and memory as a living archive of our shared histories and fragile futures. Across these themes, the exhibition surfaces urgent concerns—climate change, migration, displacement, care.

Ultimately, Shared Worlds functions as both a celebration and a proposition. It celebrates the gallery as a site of sustained artistic experimentation and engagement across generations. At the same time, it proposes an expanded understanding of what an exhibition can be: not merely a presentation of works, but a lived space of encounter, criticality, and care. By allowing artists to speak in their own visual tongues—across difference, across time—the exhibition invites audiences to encounter the present condition and reflect on the social, political, global, moral and ethical imperatives of the future.

Curated by Deeksha Nath