Panels, Pages and Presentations

A Moving Line gathers more than 250 works to trace how India has told stories in sequence across fifteen hundred years. Come, witness both the creation of new visual identities and the evolution of a nation through a vast body of works across time and space as Khushi Bansal from the MAP team guides you through it. Follow a single line from a temple wall in Bengaluru to the touchscreen, and watch a country tell its stories.

This programme is part of the celebration of the opening of A Moving Line: 1500 Years of Indian Visual Storytelling. 

This exhibition is curated by the artist Amruta Patil, in partnership with the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image (CIBDI), Angoulême. It is supported by the Embassy of France in India and the French Institute in India within the larger framework of the Desibel project — an Indo-French initiative that brings together creators, institutions and communities to shape the future of comics and visual storytelling within India’s animation, visual effects, gaming, comics, and extended reality (AVGC-XR) sector. A version of the exhibition will travel to Angoulême in January 2027 for the opening of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, marking a milestone in the history of Indian comics in France.