Archive · 27 Sep 2025
Kumari Nahappan's Exhibition Showcases Color, Memory, and Ritual
Imagine an artist who turns everyday things into amazing art!
Kumari Nahappan, who grew up with Indian culture, makes sculptures and paintings using color and memories.
Her art is like stories about spices, colors, and traditions from her childhood.
One part of her art is bronze chillies and also a chessboard, using vegetables as chess pieces.
Her art explores how color helps us remember things and connect to the world around us.
It's like looking back at the past but also looking toward new ideas.
Kumari Nahappan, an artist of Indian origin, has an exhibition titled "Chromatic Currents".
The exhibition is held at Pristine Contemporary in New Delhi and curated by John Tung.
Nahappan's work includes bronze sculptures of chillies and a chessboard with vegetable-shaped pieces.
The exhibition explores how color connects memory, material, and myth.
The artist's work is inspired by childhood memories of India.
- Who
- Kumari Nahappan, a Singapore-based artist
- What
- Exhibition titled "Chromatic Currents" showcasing sculptures and paintings.
- When
- Not explicitly stated, but the exhibition is ongoing.
- Where
- Pristine Contemporary in New Delhi.
- Why
- To explore color as a binding force for memory, myth, and material.
- Artist
- Kumari Nahappan
- Exhibition Title
- Chromatic Currents
- Location
- Pristine Contemporary, New Delhi
- Curator
- John Tung
- Featured Art
- Bronze sculptures of chillies, chessboard with vegetable-shaped pieces, papyrus canvases
- Artist's Age
- 72