Delhi Contemporary art Week 2025

Mapping the Margin, CCA

Blueprint12's presentation for DCAW 2025 brings together a dynamic group of emerging artists whose practices interrogate the thresholds of memory, geography, and the often-invisible infrastructures, social, political, and digital, that condition contemporary existence. Traversing textile, printmaking, photography, and paintings, these artists engage with both the personal and the collective, illuminating what is overlooked, erased, or concealed in plain sight.

Tanvi Ranjan translates data into woven portraiture, embedding binary code within textile structures to encode human presence into the fabric of technological systems. Her works operate at the intersection of legibility and encryption, offering a nuanced reading of identity in the digital age. Zoya Chaudhary employs a process of meticulous cutting and layering of discarded newsprint, dissolving the linearity of language into a visual mesh that resists singular readings and reframes mediated perception. The Aravani Art Project, a collective of trans and cis women artists, translates their expansive public murals onto canvas, retaining their spirit of resistance and joy while offering an intimate portrayal of queer and trans lives negotiated within everyday social textures.

Anilakumar Govindappa's woodcut prints unfold as fragmented domestic tableaux, where the absurd mingles with the familiar in patterned narratives that subtly critique structures of caste, gender, and class. Vasundhara Sellamuthu blurs the boundaries of painting and architecture through her geometric compositions on MDF; manipulating color, space, and surface, she proposes alternative visual grammars that resist categorization. In Akshay Bhoan's layered photographic works, maps, documentary residue, and archival fragments converge to excavate spatial memory, environmental degradation, and the infrastructural violences that underlie urban expansion.

Adding to this chorus is JK, an emerging artist whose vibrant, intricately detailed domestic scenes portray everyday familial life with warmth, complexity, and quiet subversion. His compositions unfold across flattened perspectives and patterned surfaces, populated by figures in repose, leisure, or intimate exchange. JK’s work subtly queers the conventions of family representation, allowing tenderness, care, and companionship. 

Together, these seven artists present a material and conceptual chorus, each articulating a language of resistance and remembrance through their chosen mediums. Mapping the Margin affirms Blueprint12’s commitment to championing experimental voices across disciplines and lived experiences, positioning art as a tool for excavation, reassembly, and speculative world-building.