Talks
Shared Futures: Artist Conversations
Rupali Patil and Gayatri Kodikal
As part of Shared Futures, a public programme accompanying Beneath the Turning Sky, we invite audiences into conversations with artists from the exhibition, offering deeper insight into their creative processes, research, and ways of engaging with the world.
For the inaugural edition of the series, artist Rupali Patil joins Gayatri Kodikal in conversation to explore ecofeminist perspectives on land, labour, and the body. Their dialogue will examine how systems of extraction and environmental degradation are experienced, resisted, and reimagined through artistic practice, while reflecting on the forms of resilience, care, and collective resistance that emerge in times of ecological crisis.
Beneath the Turning Sky brings together artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, and textile practices, illuminating contemporary debates around ecology, technology, development, and our relationship with the environment. Through distinct visual languages, the exhibition asks: How might art reshape our collective stewardship of the planet?
Extending these questions beyond the gallery, Shared Futures creates a space for exchange through lectures, conversations, workshops, and other experimental formats. Across these encounters, the series considers what the arts can offer in turbulent times and how creative practices can help forge new ways of thinking, being, and building solidarity.
This event is held in conjunction with our ongoing permanent exhibition Beneath the Turning Sky.
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Rupali Patil
Speaker
Rupali Patil is a visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans printmaking, drawing, and installation. Her work examines the intersections of ecology, labour, and social justice, with a particular focus on water scarcity, resource extraction, and environmental degradation. Drawing on ecofeminist perspectives, she explores how landscapes and communities are transformed by industrialisation, often depicting workers and farmers as symbolic figures within imagined terrains. Through cartographic forms, architectural motifs, and speculative landscapes, Patil reflects on the complex relationships between people, land, and systems of power. Based in Pune, she has exhibited extensively across India and internationally.
Gayatri Kodikal
Moderator
Gayatri Kodikal is a contemporary visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores memory, the body, and human relationships with the more-than-human world. Working across artistic research, moving image, installation, and material experimentation, she engages with questions of ecology, spirituality, history, and culture in times of environmental crisis. Her work brings together diverse narratives and methodologies to create layered, playful assemblages that examine the interconnectedness of life and landscape. Educated at the Dutch Art Institute, The Netherlands, with prior training in experimental film, video, and psychology, Kodikal has exhibited widely in India and internationally, and has received several prestigious grants, fellowships, and residencies.
