South Asia

This edition embraced thoughts and existences regarding hybridity, diasporic identities, interconnectedness, embodied narratives and memory.

The Foundation emerged from collectors Lekha Poddar and her son Anupam Poddar expanding their personal interests in art to facilitating wider public engagement with artistic practice and curatorial interventions.

On 19 May 2021 art historian Dr. Natasha Bissonauth moderated a conversation between artists Sunil Gupta, Prem Sahib, and Jake Grewal. In this discussion the three London-based artists shared insights into their individual practices and offered an entryway into thinking and seeing through queer South Asian diasporic aesthetics.