To inhabit a place is to be marked by it, just as surely as it is marked by us. Whether we arrive, depart, or remain, time courses through both body and landscape, weaving memory into stone, light, and air. The city at night, a skyline veiled in shifting clouds, or a silent street emptied of its day’s noise—all sites where human presence and absence linger.
In the show, the works of Mansoor Mansoori and Nivedita Shinde document places, common, liminal—and in doing so they begin to map the journey of those places and the artists through time. Here we are invited to dwell within the quotidienne; vermillion-coated streets fragment the city into frames,
sodium vapour lamps recast dark roadsides into an urban chiaroscuro.
The works become meditations on movement itself: the subtle migrations of spirit and thought, the slow accretion of memory, how stillness might paradoxically signal motion through time. Mansoor’s nightscapes hold all the quiet persistence of places often unseen, their dark expanses restless with unspoken narratives. Shinde’s vast skies stretch above fragile urban outlines, reminding us of the precarious balance between the intimate and the infinite, between what endures and what vanishes.
Together, their practices parse not only the external environments we traverse, but also the interior journeys that unfold alongside them. To look at these works is to recognize that even in stillness, we are always in passage; through streets, through horizons, through time itself. As the city prepares for Mumbai Climate Week, the exhibition also invites you to reconnoitre the personal relationships with the ever-changing urban landscapes, the time and place we find ourselves in, a convergence of personal and collective experiences in a city.