India, March 17 -- An exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery invites visitors to look inward and introspect The sense of sight is front, centre, and everywhere else as hundreds of eyes follow visitors while they move from one painting to the next at Nikhil Bahadur Shakya's ongoing exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery.

Shakya has used blank canvases as well as partially-done thangka and paintings as a base for more than 50 works on display.

The exhibits takes up beyond the physical world into a surreal spiritual realm. Shakya strips the human body down to muscle, tendon, networks of nerves, and skeleton. But all the while, eyes are a constant presence.

Nikhil Bahadur Shakya Artist Nikhil Bahadur Shakya with a visitor. The central theme is...