Participating artists: Ali Glover, Ana Genovés, Charo Garaigorta, Damien Meade, Ian Dawson, Ian Gouldstone, Katrin Hanusch, Mike Marshall, Oona Grimes, Robin Megannity, Sarah Staton.
Thapar Contemporary’s inaugural programme unfolds through two parallel events during the India Art Fair: the exhibition The Engineering of Rubble, presented at the gallery, and a new iteration of SupaStore, a site-specific project by London-based artist Sarah Staton, installed in the grounds of Bikaner House.
The Engineering of Rubble presents works by Europe-based contemporary artists. The works practice the art of reorganising chaos gently while inviting us to consider how disorder might be allowed to play without the demand for resolution. From what is broken, we learn an acceptance of the incomplete, and from loss we learn presence. These are works that move through pauses, returns, and reconsiderations, proposing an architecture built not of walls, frames, plinths or screens, but of patient attention. The fractured and incomplete speak of matter’s quiet will to endure even after its purpose has dissolved. We encounter the grace of things that have broken yet chosen to remain.
At Bikaner House, Thapar Gallery presents SupaStore, an event-based, durational travelling artwork conceived by Sarah Staton, staged as a series of temporary stores hosted by institutions and project spaces worldwide. It operates as a site of dialogue, foregrounding the artist’s role as thinker and provocateur while prompting reflection on the frameworks that shape artistic value.
Together, these two projects form distinct yet interconnected interventions, inviting audiences to dwell within disorder, unsettle linear narratives of history, and consider how meaning emerges from what remains.