{"title":"Gallery Events","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-sacred-the-splintered-method-kala-ghoda-10-july-3-august-2025","title":"The Sacred \u0026 The Splintered | Method Kala Ghoda | 10 July - 9 August 2025","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eDate : 10 July - 9 August 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGallery Location : \u003ca title=\"86, Nagindas Master Rd, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/R6gogeeBoLeLTq6m9\"\u003e86, Nagindas Master Rd, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Sacred \u0026amp; The Splintered is an exhibition that asks: What does it mean for a sculpture to speak? What happens when space performs back?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn these installations, materials, gestures, and the viewer’s body collide in acts of silent yet forceful communication. This is a site of process, tension, and transformation, where affective traces of ritual practice and existential questions coexist with violence and vulnerability. Through this interplay, the installations invoke discomfort, conflict, and introspection, unfolding as heterotopic sites—spaces of otherness where danger, devotion, submission, and power converge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its core, Baroda-based artist Arun B.’s practice grapples with the paradox of human existence: the unrelenting search for meaning in a universe that remains indifferent. Creation becomes, for him, an act of rebellion—an assertion of freedom against entropy. Over time, his inquiry has evolved from shaping static forms to questioning how sculpture can become a space of happening: mutable, relational, and alive to the presence of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWorking with found objects, Arun seeks to preserve their cultural and historical significance while integrating them into new contexts. Thoughts, like materials, become mediums—at once personal and collective—shaped by memory, history, and perception. His relocation from Kerala to Gujarat marked a turning point, making him acutely aware of how cultural shifts reshape the self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRather than occupying or controlling space, these works strive to activate it. The sculptures invite interaction, dialogue, and reflexivity. As the viewer enters, they are drawn in—or held back—by the performative tension of the encounter. 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Don't lie. Some of you opened it this morning maybe before you were fully conscious. And it proceeded to give you exactly what you asked for without you asking for anything. That right there is the Spotify trick and what Liz Pelly spent years documenting, nailing with precision things that should ought to make every subscriber at least a bit uncomfortable. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eMood Machine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e is a text about what happens to music when it gets processed through a system that has little interest in what it means. But before that, accountability hour:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eSpotify didn’t do this alone. You did this too. The listener who decided that paying for music was a kind of tyranny, and that friction in the listening experience was a design flaw to be optimised away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eLucky for us, FRICTION is a physical record store catering to the exact demographic Pelly is addressing:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003ethe ones who still possess the muscle memory of what music felt like when it cost you something. 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