A Circle of Our Own

Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani
Presented by Gallery Ragini

Venue: Sunder Nursery, New Delhi
Exhibition Duration: 17 November 2019 – 16 February 2020
(On view from sunrise to sunset)

Presented by Gallery Ragini in the historic setting of Sunder Nursery, A Circle of Our Own marked Kohli’s first large-scale sculptural exhibition in an outdoor heritage environment. Installed around the 16th-century Mughal lotus pond, the exhibition brought together sandstone sculptures, zinc etchings, and major works in wood and bronze.

The show featured a circle of sixty-four Yoginis — first envisioned as etchings on zinc plates and later translated into sandstone in collaboration with master stone carvers near Hirapur, Odisha.

In the towering wooden sculpture Kali, carved from gambhari wood, she presented a female interpretation of Krishna standing upon the golden womb, with Kali residing in her heart — an embodiment of balance between ferocity and compassion, creation and dissolution.

The opening evening featured a live narrative performance titled A Circle of Our Own: Fragment of the Whole, presented at the Garden Amphitheatre.