The exhibit takes its name from Vishnu, the pervader:  the one who does not dwell within the temple walls but is present in everything that the temple holds. It is a fitting frame for two practices that refuse containment, that seep through the boundaries of form, medium and iconography. NFN Kalyan and Jayesh Sachdev build worlds that are dense, mythologically saturated and demanding. Where image is never innocent and meaning is never settled. The familiar will become strange and the recognisable will pose a question. We do not simply ask you to look, we ask you to enquire within. Not the self you imagine yourself to be, nor the self you are busy constructing, but something prior to both.

Curated by Mihir Thakkar