Weekly planner: Exploring ‘non-linear’ art, an exhibition centred on children, and more

Spotlighting micro moments

A new show, Moments That Make Infinity, at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, explores the “non-linear” architecture of both making and viewing art. Curated by Sanjana Shah and Sapna Kar, the exhibition features works by 13 artists like Viraj Khanna, Pooja Bhansali, Vinod Daroz, and more, in a salon-style display. The artworks on display span mediums such as ceramics, sculpture, terracotta and hand-embroidered textiles. According to the curators, the show sheds light on those precise “visual and conceptual micro-moments” that converge to form a larger narrative. “By challenging the viewer to look beyond a linear narrative, the show invites an active intellectual collaboration between the observer and the canvas,” states the curatorial note. On view from 18 July to 8 August at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, 11 am to 6.30 pm.

Rethinking childhood collectively

Method Delhi is presenting Holiday Homework, a show by LOAM, a contemporary art platform for children, supported by the Ardee Foundation. The exhibition questions what childhood would look like when not shaped by mass production, industrial design and global manufacturing. “Holiday Homework invites artists to reimagine the material and conceptual conditions of growing up. It asks what happens when artists, rather than industries, construct the environments of play,” states the curatorial note. LOAM brought the participating artists into the school environment so that children could become equal partners in the creative discourse. Students respond through an open call, “proposing functional and conceptual works” that are exhibited alongside practicing artists. On view at Method, Defence Colony, New Delhi, 19 July to 23 August, 12 pm to 7 pm (closed on Monday).

Classical moves

Natya Vriksha presents the formal debut of Bharatanatyam dancer Vidhi Bansal, a disciple of Geeta Chandran. The arangetram will be accompanied by a live orchestra led by Chandran on nattuvangam, with Vidwan Sreeraag Nair (vocal), Vidwan Vignesh Jayaraman on mridangam, Vidwan Varun Rajasekharan on the ghatam and Vidwan V.S.K. Annadoraim playing the violin.

On 18 July, 6pm onwards, Chinmaya Mission Auditorium, 89, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi.

Systems of support

Experimenter is presenting Biraaj Dodiya’s solo show, Grid for a Disappearance, which brings together a new body of work featuring painted steel sculptures, photos and oil paintings on linen. The artist finds herself examining forms of collapse and the ancient human need to create systems that resist this collapse, “[in the form of] architectural support structures, repair materials, elegies,” she writes in an artist statement. The layered works look at both care and repair. On view at Experimenter, Ballygunge Place, till 19 September, 11 am to 6.30 pm (closed on Sunday).