Academy of Fine Arts

The story of Exile is the story of survival, not just of bodies, but of identities and ideas. In ‘Into Exile’, the Tibetan diaspora is not merely chronicled—it is lived, seen, and felt through ...

Chhatrapati Dutta’s installation ‘Shadow Lines’ is located at the intersection of history and memory, where the past collides with the present, leaving the scars of Partition raw and visible. This is not simply a work about the Partition of Bengal; it is about the cyclical nature of trauma—how lines, once drawn, are never erased but instead multiply, intersecting with new borders, ideologies, and identities...

The impulse to create one’s own image is as old as time itself. It was a special power that artists possessed, and countless among them have used this gift to render themselves on canvas....

Sudarshan Shetty’s 'One Life Many' unfolds as an introspection on change, identity, and the fluid interplay between reality and illusion. It is not a narrative in the conventional sense but a constellation of images and objects, each connected like cross-currents in a stream, pulling the viewer into a space where boundaries collapse and meanings are constantly shifting....