Isotropical Futures explores ecological and social survival through the lens of deeply personal and politically conscious artistic practices of Asif Imran, Avni Bansal, David Malaker, Geetanjali Bayan, Harmeet Rattan, Moumita Basak, Sitikanta Samantsinghar, Satadru Sovan, and Unnikrishnan C. Borrowing from the scientific principle where unstable systems tend toward isotropy - a state of equilibrium - this exhibition challenges the illusion of “diversity” as a solution for ecological collapse, instead proposing a radical rethinking of collectivity, homogenization, and solidarity - not in erasure of difference, but in alignment with nature’s interdependence.

Drawing from eco-social theory and lived experience, the artists in this exhibition reflect how environmental degradation disproportionately affects marginalized communities - minorities, Indigenous peoples, and the economically disenfranchised - and how identity can both resist and be co-opted by extractive systems. In this attempt, Isotropical Futures reclaims homogenization not as an oppressive force, but as a potential condition for planetary survival, asking if a shared ecological subjectivity - grounded in care, mutual vulnerability, and interconnection - can emerge in place of individualism and capitalistic logic.

Here, nature is not a backdrop but collaborator, ancestor, and witness. The artists bring forward practices rooted in community, lineage, and land, resisting capitalist narratives of extraction and progress. Isotropical Futures doesn’t seek utopia but it seeks alignment: where grief and growth, identity and ecology, resistance and care exist not in binaries, but in entangled, transformative proximity. This exhibition is not just a protest - it is a proposition: toward a just, shared future where survival is collective, and conservation is cultural.

Yash Vikram
Curator