New Delhi: Panipat-based Raj Group, one of the oldest home furnishing exporters from the area, is presenting in Delhi in November an exhibition of artworks that has emerged from a year-long interaction between eleven Delhi-based artists and factory weavers. The idea is to put the spotlight back on our weaving traditions that are slowly facing extinction in the face of competition from machine-made products.
Curated by Shailin Smith, the exhibition – titled FIBRE FABLES: An exhibition in collaboration with artists and weavers – including installations, photographs, video and sound art, will be held at The Stainless Gallery, Old Ishwar Nagar, New Delhi from November 21 till December 31, 2015, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The eleven participating artists are Abeer Gupta, Brahm Maira, Dhvani Behl, Durga Kainthola, Nidhi Khurana, Nikheel Apahle, Puneet Kaushik, Sahaya Sharma, Sandeep Biswas, Shivani Aggarwal and Vibhu Galhotra.
The idea for this project germinated from an exhibition that was done in July 2014 to commemorate 75 Years of Raj Group. The works then displayed in the exhibition were fibre art pieces, designed by the team at Raj Group and created by the weavers. After the 2014 show received a positive response, Managing Partner of Raj Group Sumeet Nath decided to offer contemporary artists/photographers/designers a platform to work at the factory.