Space is a practiced place.
— Michel de Certeau
Holding Space is an exhibition that explores the terrain of belief and faith, and its continual evolution. It is a group exhibition featuring the artworks of Jofre Oliveras, Angel Baiju, Anikesa Dhing, Harsimran C. Juneja, Meera George, and Chacko.
The exhibition explores the lived reality of faith as well as its machinery. Every individual’s experience of faith is radical on its own, an internal syntax composed of history and revelation. These private convictions configure our public spaces and systems through an inevitable and – at times, overpowering – process of translation. The exhibition situates faith at the threshold between the vulnerability of intimate dwellings and the architecture of today’s institutions. The artworks examine faith as a series of negotiations, working through the friction of complex, often conflicting realities that coexist in the same space. Seen together, they renounce a singular decree or narrative; they simply sit alongside each other, with each work conversing in its own distinct dialect, inviting the public into their dialogue. Amidst global warfare and escalating polarization, this exhibition invites visitors to step away from rhetoric and pause, in order to engage with the difficult, intentional work of perspective-taking. It foregrounds the process of revisiting and reflecting on what we hold to be true.
