THE BARODA WAVE brings together a group of artists associated with Baroda, presenting diverse approaches to image-making, sculpture, printmaking and material practice.
Across the exhibition, the artists reflect on the ways in which we experience place, memory, time and change. Landscapes appear not simply as representations of the world around us, but as spaces shaped by memory, human intervention and personal experience. Fields meet concrete structures; familiar objects become carriers of memory; natural forms speak of growth, decay and renewal; and everyday experiences are transformed through artistic language.
The exhibition moves between the intimate and the expansive. From the remembered spaces of childhood and personal histories to questions surrounding agricultural land, urban expansion and our relationship with nature, these works consider how environments and identities are continually reshaped.
Materiality plays an equally important role. Watercolour, oil, mixed media, lithography, drypoint, etching, glass, brass, terracotta, ceramic and wood become active participants in the artists' explorations. Rather than belonging to a single visual language, the works demonstrate the plurality of contemporary practices emerging from Baroda.
The Baroda Wave is therefore an exhibition about movement—between past and present, landscape and city, memory and experience, fragility and permanence. It invites us to look closely at the transformations taking place around us, and within us.