…ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty

In “…ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty”, Anupam presents new works spanning drawing, painting, writing, sound, video, sculpture, posters, and zines. Produced in a collective spirit, often in collaboration with companions, colleagues, peers, friends, partners, and comrades, these works refuse closure, instead tracing recurring patterns of collective seeing, sensing, and remembering. Anupam conceives of land and language as inseparable, co-constituting forces. The varied presence of human and non-human beings gives rise to dialects, narratives, and memory. Language, in turn, bears the imprint of land. Neither land nor language is stable. Both are mutable, continually reshaped through contact, yet each retains sedimented traces of what it once carried. Here sovereignty emerges as a custodianship shared across multiple forms of life. Anupam’s works assemble fragments, of the flora that endure in memory, narratives transmitted but never directly witnessed, images that deviate yet cohabit within a shared surface. Such fragmenting resist submission into a singular narrative. They remain dispersed, provisional, and incomplete, mirroring lifeworlds and relations fractured, and destabilized through the governing violence of state and market.

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The title “…ing” refers to this sense of ongoingness. It points to both the violence of extraction and enclosure, and to the persistence of voices that refuse silence. The exhibition stays with this continuum, dwelling spaces for other ways of living, speaking, and belonging, in a conjuncture of hegemonic normalization of sceneries without sovereignty.

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