Installation view of HEMALI BHUTA’s "Aha!" at Project 88, Mumbai, 2022. All images courtesy the artist and Project 88.
The title of Hemali Bhuta’s show “Aha!,” mounted at Mumbai’s Project88, could allude to an eureka moment—perhaps it was an expression of the artist’s sheer wonder and delight at orchestrating three of her previous shows into one. Bhuta’s latest solo exhibition comprised artworks from prior ones: “Measure of a foot” (2016), “Subarnarekha” (2017), as well as “and the epic did not happen!”(2021). Eschewing a linear narrative, she unearthed and placed earlier works in new constellations in her installation A Shrine (2022).
