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Delhi Contemporary Art Week Explores the Capital’s Overlooked Everyday Lives
Delhi Contemporary Art Week is an art exhibition about what everyday life in Delhi feels like.
It is being held at Bikaner House.
The artists show streets, workers, homes and people moving through the city.
Shoenize Akhtar painted two young men standing in a neighbourhood street.
Ritika Sharma’s pictures look like views from a security camera and raise questions about surveillance.
B Pradhan made a sculpture about workers who keep the city running.
Shreeya Dwivedi painted herself cleaning a sink while living alone.
Astha Butail used mirrors to show how people can have many identities in city life.
The exhibition looks beyond famous monuments and ends on September 5.
Delhi Contemporary Art Week features works from six Delhi-based galleries at Bikaner House.
The exhibition focuses on ordinary people, public spaces, workers and systems shaping city life.
Shoenize Akhtar’s “Galli ke Ladke” captures an everyday street encounter with two young men.
Works by Ritika Sharma, B Pradhan and Shreeya Dwivedi examine surveillance, labour and domestic pressures.
Astha Butail’s mirror installation explores the overlapping identities shaped by urban life; the exhibition ends September 5.
- Who
- Six Delhi-based galleries and artists including Shoenize Akhtar, Ritika Sharma, B Pradhan, Shreeya Dwivedi and Astha Butail.
- What
- Delhi Contemporary Art Week presents artworks about the Capital’s everyday people, spaces, labour, surveillance and personal experiences.
- Where
- Bikaner House in Delhi.
- When
- The exhibition ends on September 5; the article does not specify the year.
- Why
- To portray Delhi as a lived city shaped by ordinary people, overlooked work, public spaces and daily struggles rather than only monuments and development.
Key facts
- Event
- Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW)
- Venue
- Bikaner House, Delhi
- Participating galleries
- Six Delhi-based galleries
- Featured work
- Shoenize Akhtar’s “Galli ke Ladke”
- Key themes
- Everyday life, labour, surveillance, domestic spaces and urban identity
- Closing date
- September 5
- Featured installation
- Astha Butail’s “Self Series,” consisting of seven hexagonal mirrors
Quotes
Shoenize Akhtar
Artist whose work ‘Galli ke Ladke’ is featured at DCAW
“I am drawn to things that are easy to overlook. I am interested in the everyday – the people you pass on the street, a particular gesture, a lane, a group of boys walking home.”
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“Cleaning is a simple chore but it can feel overwhelming at times as I live alone.”
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