Barjeel Art Foundation, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation collaborate for India show

Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, have announced the hosting of Resonant Histories: India and the Arab World, a collaborative exhibition (Nov. 14-Feb. 15) that traces the vibrant artistic and cultural dialogues between India and the Arab world across the twentieth century.

- Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer

Egyptian artist Nasek Hamdi's The Lotus Flower (The Lotus Girl). Untitled work by Iraqi artist Suha Al-Attar.

Curated by Puja Vaish and Suheyla Takesh, the exhibition will be on view at the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS, Mumbai; the show foregrounds the shared aspirations, intellectual exchanges and creative synergies that shaped modern art across these regions. Resonant Histories presents artworks by pioneering modern artists from the collections of Barjeel Art Foundation and the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, which, being staged in dialogue, illuminate cross-cultural encounters that continue to shape artistic and intellectual discourse between the two regions even today.

The exhibition brings together seminal Arab artists who lived, trained, or exhibited in Indian cities or places such as New Delhi, Mumbai, and Shantiniketan. Their engagements - whether through participation in Triennale-India, training with Indian instructors, or shared association with the ideals of the Non-Aligned Movementunderscore the layered intersections of identity, colonial history, and modernity in their work, besides being living witnesses to the growth and development of cultural ties between the Arab and Indian worlds.