India, July 12 -- Artist Raj Kishore Gupta trades flat canvas for raw timber, preserving ancient tribal narratives at Bikaner House

When ancient cultural heritage spaces begin to vanish, society risks the forced silence of its traditional masters. Chandigarh-based artist Raj Kishore Gupta's solo exhibition, Indigenous Accents, acts as a fierce defence against this loss, offering ancestral traditions a heavy, tangible stage.

Curated by Uma Nair at New Delhi's Bikaner House, the exhibition actually owes its existence to the long, quiet months of the pandemic lockdowns. Grounded by the isolation, Gupta spent that time looking closely at how indigenous art survives and speaks. Pulling threads from African, Australian Aboriginal, and Indian ...