Moon Myths-30 Poornima
Threadworks, Embroidery
Where Earth Writes Upon the Sky
1 December – 28 December 2025
Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai
Presented by Gallery Veda
Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani
Where Earth Writes Upon the Sky was a month-long solo exhibition presented at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, from 1 to 28 December 2025. Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani, the exhibition brought together a significant body of work exploring the feminine through memory, lived experience, and storytelling.
The title was inspired by Khalil Gibran’s evocative line, “Trees are poems that the Earth writes upon the sky,” which served as a conceptual anchor for the exhibition. The works on view reflected on continuity, renewal, and the dynamic dialogue between inner and outer worlds.
The exhibition featured paintings, sculptures, video, performance, and installations, offering audiences an expansive view of Kohli’s evolving practice across mediums. Presented in Chennai at Lalit Kala Akademi, the show brought together different phases of her artistic journey within a single space, allowing viewers to trace the continuity of ideas that have shaped her work over the years.
Kohli’s practice has long engaged with mythic narratives, symbolic figures, and the idea of the sacred feminine. Through layered surfaces, flowing forms, and recurring motifs, her works weave together memory, desire, belief, and imagination. Many pieces in the exhibition drew from natural elements — trees, animals, and cosmic forms — reflecting her sustained engagement with ecological thought and spiritual ecofeminism. Across mediums, these elements invited viewers into contemplative encounters with the themes that continue to animate her practice.
The exhibition also marked a significant presentation of her work in Chennai — her first large-scale showing at Lalit Kala Akademi in the city. It included sculptures, works on paper, canvases, and a special emphasis on thread and embellishment works on raw, untreated canvas. The transition of imagery across paper, canvas, thread, and sculptural form revealed the material evolution of her ideas.
Curator Shaunak Mahbubani described the exhibition as part of an ongoing curatorial dialogue with the artist since 2019. Drawing from Gibran’s metaphor of trees as poems written by the earth upon the sky, he observed that Kohli’s work explores the poetic charge generated at the meeting of dualities — above and below, within and without, sun and moon, earth and sky — a resonance that felt especially pertinent in contemporary times.
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Grid of 84 archival prints of self-portraits, of 10x10inch. The cycle of life revolves around birth, death and the eventual liberation from mortality. All forms of life follow...
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Art Heritage Gallery, NSIC Grounds, New Delhi
Art Heritage Gallery, NSIC Grounds, New Delhi
Bihar Museum
Presented by Sanchit Art Gallery At The Arts House, Singapore
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco presented by the Lara Lakshimi Foundation
Tao Art Gallery
Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, California
National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) New Delhi
Travancore Palace • Bikaner House • India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Presented by Museum of Sacred Art At MOSA Radhadesh Gallery, Belgium
Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Kolkata
Venue: Sunder Nursery, New Delhi, Presented by Gallery Ragini
Hong Kong Visual Arts Center, Hong Kong, presented by Sanchit Art Gallery
Archer Art Gallery Ahmedabad, India
S.A. Fine Arts, Cromwell Place, London
Bikaner House, New Delhi presented by Gallerie Nvya
Gallerie Nvya, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
Bihar Museum, Patna
Shridharani Gallery at Triveni Kala Sangam, presented by Gallerie Nvya, Delhi
Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru
Seema Kohli Studio, New Delhi and The Partition Museum, Delhi
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