New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- Ancestral Fragments or Division of Ancestral Lands (2025) has a certain fragility to it. Prasanta Sahu's hand-drawn map of a fragment of land from his hometown of Chaughari in Odisha resembles a delicate mesh being pulled in two directions by groups of people. The dark solidity of the human figures offers a stark contrast to the intricate cartography featuring plot numbers. It connects personal memory with broader subjects of land division, traditional forms of measurement and familial inheritance.

Sahu, who is based in Santiniketan, uses mapmaking to examine the relationship between physical location and lived experience. The artist is interested in what remains invisible when a territory is reduced to coordinates ...