India Edition SupaStore x Thapar by Sarah Staton: India Art Fair Parallel

India Edition SupaStore x Thapar is a project imagined by UK-based artist Sarah Staton. It consists of a ´kiosk´, designed by Staton, that provides interior space for artworks by artists Gigi Scaria, Mithu Sen, Raaj Rufaro and Vibha Galhotra, and which emphasise both the trace of the hand in their creation and deep attention to materiality of their being. It was shown at Bikaner House (New Delhi) in the open courtyard outside the CCA Building between 02.02.2026 / 08.02.2026.

This new SupaStore edition, made specifically for Bikaner House and constructed in collaboration with Thapar Gallery and architectural design studio Isha Datta Designs, presents a lively asymmetric sculptural object derived from previous cabinets shown at the Tinguely Museum, Basel, CH, Fresh Window (Dec 2024- May 2025), and at Tate Modern, London, UK, Cities Exhibition (2001). Since its first iteration in 1993, it has worked globally with a wonderful selection of known and unknown artists to transform private and public galleries, museums, and public spaces across the world into playful arenas of creativity and exchange. SupaStore kiosks are carefully considered to create an intimate encounter for viewer and object, inviting the viewer to come close, nose against the window, exploring the artworks with the eye, and evoking the sense of touch through looking. As everything merges into shopping, art negotiates its fate of proximity to the commodity, to conditions of objecthood and reproducibility; SupaStore reveals them to be irrepressible for both. Using languages of commerce with wit and irony, Staton celebrates artists’ ability to reinvent the ordinary while inviting audiences to rethink value, ownership, and display – where art pops up, multiplies, and delights in its many guises.

Co-curated with Jasone Miranda-Bilbao and Vaibhav Raj Shah, once again, this latest iteration of the ongoing SupaStore series, tests the boundaries between art, design, and selling.