Radhika Agarwala’s Where The Forest Begins Within (2026) was made with found materials like bricks, metal, debris, interacting with plants like jasmine, loni and sadabahar
Vidya Shah and Artist Mithu Sen listens to Conversation with a Magnolia (2026) by Manuel Mata, seated at Roots of Survival (2026), a thread-based installation crafted by Sweety Chakma
“Dimensions created out of solitude…,” reads a line introducing the late Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi’s work. In another gallery, Italian artist Bice Lazzari speaks of “light, space, structure, synthesis and a little poetry”. Explaining the idea behind the exhibition, Roobina Karode, artistic director at KNMA, said, “It is always to present various works with different kinds of sensibilities and approaches. “Among the many gifts India has given me, one was experiencing the Nasreen retrospective in 2012, moving me in a very profound way,” he said, recalling how bringing her work into a jugalbandi with Lazzari revealed unexpected connections. “It was as if the two were present, inviting us to listen to them. ” He noted, “Both were trained in music, and their understanding of rhythm and repetition finds its way into their practices.
Together, the words offer a way into In-Rhythm, where two artists meet through their shared interest in line, rhythm, repetition and space. For Andrea Anastasio, Director, Italian Embassy Cultural Centre, who curated In-Rhythm with Roobina, it was also deeply personal.
