Heaven and that Other Place

Like a Leaf in Autumn

Gallery Espace, New Delhi

11 Oct - 11 Nov 2019

I've envisioned this exhibition as a journey through a wilderness. Not a geographical wilderness, but a wilderness of the mind. There is a lot of disconnection expressed in these works: a disconnection from society, from roots; from linear histories. There is confusion: a confusion of geographies and cultures, learned expectation...

Sleeping Through The Museum

Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai

7 May - 21 Jun 2014

In Sleeping Through the Museum the artist Waswo X. Waswo and his collaborators raise a wide set of questions that invite us to rethink the function and purpose of the museum. As an institution that selects and preserves specific cultural knowledge by discarding that which it deems meaningless and not...

May Be Removed At Will

Alliance Française de Delhi

23 Nov - 14 Dec 2012

Continuing his explorations of how our preconceptions, biases, and cultural prejudices distort the way we see, artist Waswo X. Waswo presents a photo and text-based exhibition entitled “May be removed at will,” a phrase that refers to our own capabilities to change the way we see.

Confessions of an Evil Orientalist

Gallery Espace, New Delhi

8 Dec 2011 - 12 Jan 2012

In 2011 the exhibition Confessions of an Evil Orientalist premiered on both levels of Gallery Espace in New Delhi, generating a large amount of discussion about Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the common ground between. Originally consisting of contemporary miniature paintings and various installations, as well as hand-coloured digital photographs, the show...