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ALAG

Tarika Sabherwal
Tarika Sabherwal
13.06.25–12.07.25
Season is delighted to present Tarika Sabherwal’s Alag, her first solo show at the gallery.
The exhibition title can be read as ‘alāg’, meaning separate, apart, parted, or different in Hindi. It can also be read as ‘a lag’, as in a lag in communication or a glitch in some sort of system. The paintings draw freely on Hindu iconography, reimagining well-known motifs and beings, such as Uchchaihshravas, a seven-headed flying horse born of the churning ocean. Sabherwal does not aim to reproduce the traditional but to extend it via new articulations or pronunciations. She comments: ‘I am engaged in processes of archiving and world-building. I wish to resist notions of blind cultural obedience. My works stray quite far from my reference points while still carrying some essence of them. An alternative version can exist alongside an original without one undermining the other. The symbols are statuesque, contained within spaces, constrained, sometimes even stretched. There is tension. Forms silently follow each other to greener fields. Perhaps I am creating an illusion of free will or freedom.’

TARIKA SABHERWAL
Blind eye I, 2025
Ink on canvas
510 x 510mm
TARIKA SABHERWAL
The grass is greener on the other side I, 2025
Ink on canvas
1110 x 1680mm

‘They blindly follow each other, crossing a boundary or border.’

TARIKA SABHERWAL
The grass is greener on the other side II, 2025
Ink on canvas
1110 x 1680mm

TARIKA SABHERWAL
Blind eye III, 2025
Ink on canvas
410 x 410mm
TARIKA SABHERWAL
Blind eye II, 2025
Ink on canvas
410 x 410mm
TARIKA SABHERWAL
Echo I, 2025
Ink on canvas
610 x 610mm

TARIKA SABHERWAL
Echo II, 2025
Ink on canvas
610 x 610mm
TARIKA SABHERWAL
Echo III, 2025
Ink on canvas
610 x 610mm

TARIKA SABHERWAL
Echo IV, 2025
Ink on canvas
610 x 610mm
TARIKA SABHERWAL
Sharing a wing, 2025
Ink on canvas
1530 x 1680mm
TARIKA SABHERWAL
Seven-headed horse I, 2025
Ink on canvas
715 x 1015mm

‘Sharing a body, coexisting, living with each other, under surveillance.’
TARIKA SABHERWAL
Seven-headed horse II, 2025
Ink on canvas
610 x 870mm