Khoj invites you for the Peers 2021 Open Day on 25th September, 4 pm.
After a yearlong hiatus, we return with the Open Day for our 17th edition of the Peers Residency, Khoj’s pioneering residency, curated to provide infrastructure, inspiration and mentorship to emerging artists and art practices.
The hybrid digital-physical residency incubated a group of six artists: Jayeeta Chatterjee, Pahul Singh, Salman Bashir, Sandeep TK, Shubham Kumar, Srinivas Harivanam, and the critic, Shivani Kasumra.
While Salman trekked through the Kashmir valley, Sandeep travelled to a backwater town in Kerala. Both returned with accoutrements, oscillating between myth, history, and story. Pahul opened her alphabet book, only to close it; started a video, only to reject it; and set out to string together a formidably labyrinthine knot of language. Jayeeta tussled with her scrap heap of cloth, her embroider’s needle, and her patience; each stitch tacking on as a sign of meticulous labour and attention. Shubham stepped inwards, closing himself in to eke out portals radiating with a cool ambiguity, weighing the possibilities of drifting away even when in confinement. In Srinivas’ speculative panorama, a troupe of motifs, figures, and fragments rise to the surface and staple a terrestrial formation appended by silica and carbon, where the conflict between the two materials becomes a correlative for those in our phenomenal world.
Join us to meet the Peers 2021 residents and view their works!