Archive · 3 Sep 2026
Delhi Contemporary Art Week Explores Ecology, Memory, and Rivers
The Delhi Contemporary Art Week is showing new artworks about nature and memories.
One exhibition includes a work by Chris Besumatery about a powerful river.
The artist made it with oil pastels on corrugated metal sheets.
The picture shows water moving stones and mud.
Some viewers may think of climate disasters when they see it.
This includes recent videos of an overflowing glacial lake in Nepal.
Another artist, Sangita Maity, made 30 artworks from copper.
Her work asks people to think differently about rivers and other sources of water.
Together, the artworks connect beauty in nature with environmental concerns.
The ninth Delhi Contemporary Art Week focuses on ecology and memory.
Shrine Empire is presenting Chris Besumatery’s commissioned work, What the River Remembers, Must the Stones Forget?
Besumatery’s work uses oil pastels on corrugated aluminium sheets to depict a river carrying stones and silt.
The river imagery may evoke climate disasters, including recent videos of an overflowing glacial lake in Nepal.
Sangita Maity’s Changing Course of the River comprises 30 copper artworks examining rivers, water bodies, and their sources.
- Who
- Artists Chris Besumatery and Sangita Maity, with Shrine Empire among the presenting galleries.
- What
- The ninth Delhi Contemporary Art Week is presenting artworks focused on ecology, memory, rivers, and water bodies.
- When
- The article does not specify the dates of the art week.
- Where
- Delhi; the article also references recent videos from Nepal.
- Why
- The artworks encourage viewers to reconsider rivers, water sources, and the destructive effects associated with climate disasters.
- Event
- Ninth edition of Delhi Contemporary Art Week
- Central themes
- Ecology and memory
- Presenting gallery
- Shrine Empire
- Commissioned work
- What the River Remembers, Must the Stones Forget? by Chris Besumatery
- Materials
- Oil pastels on corrugated aluminium sheets
- Other featured work
- Changing Course of the River by Sangita Maity
- Number of copper artworks
- 30