Exhibition: ‘Within, Without’: Tales of evanescence at Bikaner House

LTC, Bikaner House will present Within, Without: Tales of Evanescence, a solo exhibition by artist Ranjan Kaul, with curatorial advisory by Ina Puri, from September 19 to 23. The exhibition will continue at Urban Fringe, Okhla Phase I, from September 27 to October 5.

This is Kaul’s sixth solo show, bringing together oil and acrylic paintings, woodcut prints, collages, sculptures and an installation.

The works explore themes of identity, absence, and erasure, drawing from real-life accounts of missing persons, victims of trafficking, migration crises, and conflict-related disappearances.

Highlights include Leaving Home, portraying a mother and daughter escaping domestic violence; The Red Room, which traces a girl’s abduction and exploitation; and A New Identity, depicting a sex worker’s search for renewal.

Other works, such as Cataclysm in Sudan and Equus Siege, extend the artist’s reflections to global conflicts and cyber-crime. “As in all my work, this exhibition reflects my intense engagement with humanitarian themes that touch my sensibilities. While there is diversity in my art, there is an underlying personalised aesthetic in relation to form, texture and colour,” Kaul said.

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Curatorial advisor Ina Puri observed that Kaul has long been drawn to the subject of the missing. “By layering his compositions with symbolism, metaphor and allegory, he pays homage to those who have disappeared but are not forgotten,” she said.

When: September 19–23; 11 AM to 7 PM

Where: LTC, Bikaner House, Pandara Road, New Delhi