Events & Exhibitions
As Below So Above
We presented our last exhibition of 2025, 'As Below, So Above', bringing together artists from Mysore across forms and generations, 'As Below, So Above' invites a return to wonder. The exhibition explores how the cosmic and the commonplace are intertwined, how the vast universe of the epics continues to live through the gestures and materials of everyday life. Far from being monuments of the past, these stories remain a living language of imagination, constantly remade through the artists who engage with them. These stories have held up a mirror to our own contradictions through their flawed heroes, moral puzzles, and endless turns of fate. They have endured through repetition, through error, and through the small shifts of memory that, over time, have become meaning.
The echoes of the epics are alive in lullabies, proverbs, overheard quarrels, television serials, and even emblazoned on the brand of India’s most popular car. Their vitality lies in their profound malleability and capacity for multiple readings, offering wisdom that transcends religious certainty. They endure because everyone has found themselves in them, often more than once, and never in quite the same way.
Providing this exhibition its foundation is the five-decade-long artistic practice of Mysuru-based Raghupati Bhat. While credited with reviving the Ganjifa style of art, this exhibition turns instead to his line drawings, works of precision and unmistakable individuality. In them, we are reminded that faith too is a kind of imagination, shaped as much by the hand as by the heart.
In constellation with him are three artists from Mysore, inspired by Bhat’s legacy: KJ Pavan, R. Bhanuprakash, and N. Ranganatha, who carry the epics into new materials and new worlds. Through Photography, Marquetry, and Hand-painted type, they show how these ancient stories move through the rhythms of daily life.
