Nepal, Aug. 8 -- 'HOMAGE TO BANARAS', running at the Kathmandu Art Gallery, brings together close to twenty emerging Nepali artists from Lalitkala Campus, each of whom travelled to Varanasi, the sacred sister city of Kathmandu, on the same educational visit and returned with a different city entirely.

Walking through the Kathmandu Art Gallery's rooms, the show reads less like a single-artist thesis and more like a chorus: portraits, ghats, boats, cremation grounds, and flame, all rendered by hands that had never touched Varanasi before and were changed by it anyway.

The gallery has arranged the work loosely by artist, where one gets to experience the works of students and alumni of Lalitkala and how they interact with each other when re...