Curated by Yash Vikram
Anikesa Dhing | Aninda Ghai | Debshruti Aich | Digvijay Jadeja | Rajnish Channesh | Ramansh Bhargav | Ritika Sharma | Madhurjya Dey | Shiv Shankar
Conceived as an evolving, living space, Tickle A Memory invites a playful, gentle engagement with the dense ideas of memory, history, and nostalgia. The exhibition asks us to reconsider recollection not merely as a private act of remembering, but as a shared process of becoming, where lives, histories, and gestures inevitably rub against one another, leaving subtle and enduring imprints. At its core, the exhibition weaves together interconnected threads that form a palimpsest of shared memory realized through the practice of Anikesa Dhing, Aninda Varma, Debashruti Aich, Digvijay Jadeja, Rajnish Chhanesh, Ramansh Bhargay, Ritika Sharma, Madhurjya Dey, and Shiv Shankar. These artistic practices are not merely a visual or emotional expression, but an extension of cognition, where memory and nostalgia becomes both method and matter. The paintings of Anikes Dhing, and the ceramic works of Aninda Varma look at material memory, conveying how both the meaning and value of what belongs keeps shifting over time.
Debashruti Aich's drawings reframe the female body through lived experience, transforming surveillance into quiet resistance, while Shiv Shankar's mixed-media portraits blur familial and social boundaries. Rajnish Chhanesh's miniature drawings respond to systemic injustices that continue to persist across class and time. In dialogue, Ramansh Bhargay's monoprints probe the liminal queer body negotiating visibility, while Ritika Sharma's paintings observe the infra-ordinary rhythms of daily life. Madhurjya Dey's paintings examine the dominant histories of North-East India, focusing on themes of marginalization, forced nationalization, and freedom politics through oral histories, personal testimonies, and photographic records. Bringing these impulses together, Digvijay Jadeja's painting uses assemblage of personal and collective memory to create quiet acts of remembrance and forgetting.
Tickle a Memory thus becomes a site of convergence, where memory is not only archived but made anew. It resists closure, remaining open-ended, dialogic, and co-authored by everyone who steps into it.
