Devadeep Gupta: We Must Therefore Turn Our Attention Skywards

A short pop-up exhibition for Devadeep Gupta, presented by Prameya Art Foundation with the support of Alserkal Avenue and India Art Fair. The artist’s practice investigates the overlapping histories of colonial extraction, ecological destruction, and indigenous resilience in Margherita, Assam – once a thriving rainforest ecosystem, now devastated by over 150 years of coal mining. This project gathers anecdotal, speculative and documentary traces of Margherita’s transformation from a lush rainforest to an environmental, and public-health crisis; Gupta highlights the inter-generational resilience of the inhabitants of the land as a form of reparative resistance within sites of ecological collapse, reframing survival as both an aesthetic and an ethical act.

To 23 November.