aspic art

Contemporary art often defined by the singular, towering artist, the S2 Collective presents a compelling alternative: a chorus of distinct creative voices. This collective unites artists across generations and styles—from emerging talents to seasoned mid-career practitioners—into an alliance focused on shared principles of accessibility, material exploration, and thoughtful composition. Its members work across a broad…

Ruchira Chordia’s abstract canvases speak through texture, temperature, and time. Her work balances an immediate warmth—an enveloping world of burnt sienna, rust, and earth—with moments of stark interruption: turquoise blocks and intense blacks. What appears as spontaneity is, in fact, a sensitive orchestration. Chordia layers, scrapes, and uncovers pigment as one would a memory. The…

Pawan Sharma’s work reads like a visual puzzle. It’s whimsical and lightly absurd. His semi-figurative language folds the imagined into the everyday, where dreams take shape. In a time full of symbols and humour, Untitled (16) seems like a derivative of the recently viral meme on ‘aura farming’. Sharma let the work drift between internet…

The Bahurupi becomes a recurring presence: shape-shifter, performer, mirror in the works of Atanu Pramanik. It stands in for the many selves we inhabit and the faces we wear in different spaces. His portrayal of Shiva and Kali emerges as emotional metaphors—tension, power, care, duality. Pramanik pulls from visual traditions—miniature painting, folk motifs—but the result…

Rajendra Prasad’s work rewards deeper looking. The grid-like structures in his paintings echo the excavation sites he engages with professionally. They are grids, and yet not quite—geometrical but imprecise, measured yet uncentered. What emerges is order and erosion, presence and absence. Saturated colours and negative spaces are imperative to balance the work. This untitled painting…

It’s a mistake to explain abstraction. It’s a bigger one to leave it untouched. Shivani Garg’s abstract language is built from tension—between the flowing and the fixed, the organic and the engineered. Her forms move between loose shapes, structured grids, and textured fragments. But what anchors it all is the idea of freedom. She’s said…

There is restraint in this work, but not silence.The greyed surface holds space like a breath held in. To the left, a cluster of gestural lines—thin, spontaneous, yet deliberate—marks territory. They form an invisible boundary. Like the margins we live with daily. These marks are neither loud nor decorative. They are sensitive, rigorous, and quietly…

For Sangeeta Grover, painting is a space where memory, material, and emotion converge. Her practice, rooted in architectural forms and urban textures, gradually shifted from representation to abstraction—led by personal experience, meditative process, and a deep engagement with impermanence. Through layered surfaces, raw brushstrokes, and intuitive mark-making, Grover transforms the visible into the felt. In…

Mila Supinskaya doesn’t fit into neat categories. Trained as a photographer and designer, she’s also made a name for herself with raw, intimate embroidery pieces that speak to mental health, identity and displacement. Her practice blends craft and digital media, personal narrative and public dialogue. Originally from Ukraine and now based in India, with time…

Ritumbhra, also known as Ritu Mehra, is an Indian visual artist whose practice centres on introspection, memory and the interplay between the tangible and intangible. Her recent body of work marks a shift towards reduction and restraint, using monochrome palettes and gestural lines to explore the space between presence and absence. In her own words,…