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Roots of the Earth - Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
A low tremor of cow-bells threads the room, their brass throats still tasting of pasture and protest. In Roots of the Earth, Prabhakar Kamble answers that tremor with clay and rope: terracotta pots ascend like cropped hills, indigo-dusted elephants keep watch, and frayed cords coil through every hollow – binding labour to memory, violence to revolt. His sculptures feel stitched together the way a field is sown: seed after patient seed, each hook, bell, and pot carrying the scent of freshly turned soil. You sense the agricultural magic of terracotta here – how fired mud can hold both water and history, how a bell can toll for dignity as much as for cattle.
Across the floor Akshay Mahajan gathers the river’s drift from sculpture to collage, letting folk songs, shards of photographs, and Hatima dolls settle in layered tides. His walls become the exhibition’s floodplain: fragments overlap like shifting sandbanks, each piece tugged into place by love, by forgotten dialect, by rumour, by the slow grammar of the Brahmaputra. Together the artists braid weight and fluidity – Kamble rooting stories in sculptural gravity, Mahajan letting them slip and recombine like silt. Between them flows a single voice, murmuring that identity, too, is river-born clay: always provisional, always in motion, yet forever carrying the bell-ring of the past and the hush of what we choose to remember.
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Foam Talent 2024-2025, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
28 March to 17 August 2025
Deutsche Börse AG, The Cube, Eschborn
Panorama Beyond the Colour Line
1-9 February, 2025
STIR Gallery, 2 North Drive, Block C, Westend DLF Chattarpur, New Delhi.
Curated by Shamooda Amrelia, Prabhakar Kamble, George Varley and Everyday Lusaka
The exhibition is on view at Young Collectors Hub at STIR Gallery, 2 North Drive, Chattarpur Farms, New Delhi from February 1 to 9
2025 Material Turn, Stranger
House, Mumbai
Survey Exhibition on a conceptual turn in aesthetics authored by artists exploring materiality.
People of Clay at Singapore International Photofestival, 2024
National Library Singapore, Plaza
Date
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
https://sipf.sg/people-of-clay/
Archivio del’invisible at JOFFIS - Jogya Fotografis Festival - https://www.jogjafotografisfestival.com/tema-2024/
VERZASCA FOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2024
AKSHAY MAHAJAN (INDIA)
NERA DI VERZASCA PRIZE
https://www.verzascafoto.com/
People at Clay at the Athens Photo Festival at the Benaki Museum June 6th to July 28th, 2024
39 Nord 16.3 Est: SIMPOSIO
I am excited to announce my participation in the upcoming exhibition project “39° North 16°3’ East,” held at Fondazione Elpis, Milano on Saturday, 2nd and Sunday, 3rd March. This event, centred around the geographic coordinates of Calabria, features two compelling exhibitions:
Simposio
Curated by In-ruins, this collective exhibition showcases the outcomes of the 2023 In-ruins artist residency at the Sibari Archaeological Park and the National Archaeological Museum of Amendolara. The exhibition includes works by Arie Amaya-Akkermans, Simon Bellouard, Cañadas & Murua, Beatrice Celli, Akshay Mahajan, Matilde Sambo, and Traslochi Emotivi.
I am pleased to announce that my work will be featured in the Foam Talent 2024-2025 exhibition. This group exhibition showcases the work of 20 artists from around the world who are contributing to the future of photography.
The exhibition includes a diverse range of photographic practices and perspectives. You can explore the digital exhibition here.
Artists: Eleonora Agostini, Cristóbal Ascencio, Florian Braakman, Sander Coers, Rehab Eldalil, Issam Larkat, Xin Li, Akshay Mahajan, Thero Makepe, Marisol Mendez, Ricardo Nagaoka, Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein, André Ramos-Woodard, Aaryan Sinha, Maryam Touzani, Jaclyn Wright, Shwe Wutt Hmon, Cansu Yıldıran, Sheung Yiu, and Amin Yousefi.
Announced as one of the twenty selected artists of the Foam Talent Call 2024-25 by Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam. This group of photographers from all over the world will participate in the biennial Foam Talent mentorship programme including various activities, that will take place in 2024 and 2025.
Archivio Del’ Invisible at Something Else at the Citadel | شئ آخر بالقلعة as part of "Riunione: Precursors of a Modern World" curated by
Àngels Díaz Miralda Tena and Sumesh-Manoj-Sharma
[Installation of Archivio Del’ Invisible at Something Else at the Citadel | شئ آخر بالقلعة
an international contemporary art experience in the heart of Cairo.]
In-ruins residency | 2023 edition
Finalist Discovery Prize ENCONTROS DA IMAGEM, Braga, Portugal
[Installation of “People of Clay” at Galeria do Largo do Paço during Encontros da Imagem, September 2023
Kaghazi Pairahan -
Publishing & Resistance in South Asia
- hosted at the doubledummy Studio, during the Rencontres d’Arles 2023, made possible by Artshila
ASAP | Subtle Archives and Subversions:
Akshay Mahajan on Kaghazi Pairahan
byANNALISA MANSUKHAN
Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-up 2023
Aperture Magazine |Akshay Mahajan Searches for Mumbai’s Past Lives by
Varun Nayar
2023 Winter Innovate Grant
Interview: Akshay Mahajan’s Street Haunting
‘Gypsies on the path of Dhamma’ part of Plea to the Foreigner :
a special project of Ambedkarite photographers for the Bamako Encounters - African Biennale of Photography, 13th Edition, curated by Prabhakar Kamble.
JIPFEST 2022 - Jakarta International Photography Festival
[Installaion view of People of Clay at JIPFest 2022, M BLOK, Jakarta
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