New Delhi, Feb. 13 -- In the middle of a room at Experimenter gallery in Kolkata's Ballygunge Place stands a large sculptural installation called Dwelling (2025). Made of three human-sized structures, it is blood-red in colour and arranged in a circle. These figures with floating hair, or so they seem from a distance, are bent over. They have tentacles wriggling out of their legs to create a tangled mess of ropes on the floor. Created by the members of the Mumbai-based not-for-profit institution Chanakya School of Craft, under the guidance of their artistic director Karishma Swali, this spectacular piece is part of Trace, the collective's first solo show in India.

"This work was inspired by the bhunga houses in Gujarat's Kutch region," S...