Shift Artist Residency is an independent collective hosted annually in a private home in rural Gujarat. Rooted in intimacy and experimentation, the residency invites artists to explore print on textile as a meaningful extension of their existing practice. The residency acts as both a reflective pause and a generative push, allowing ideas developed here to seamlessly inform and evolve within the artists’ broader, long-term practice.
Veeranganakumari Solanki
Walter Benjamin’s essay, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, proposes the dilution of the aura of an art work through the creation of machines. The argument that returns often is the idea of authenticity. An aspect that allows an artwork to remain authentic is the artistic idea and execution that adheres to the process of creating the final image, and hence also the outcome of the work by the artist. It is the human mind that conceptually develops even a mass produced image that draws itself into a space of the originality of an idea.
Veeranganakumari Solanki
Veeranganakumari Solanki
Julien Segard
Born in Marseille, France, and now working between Goa, Delhi, and Marseille, Julien Segard uses drawing and sculpture to reflect on the intersection of urban development, human history, and the precariousness of existence in a world shaped by both destruction and transformation. Through his exploration of transitional spaces—where the ruins of one era become the fertile ground for unnoticed or discarded possibilities—he reimagines these margins as places of escape. In these "blind spots," free from society’s gaze, freedom becomes possible, challenging conventional understandings of urban spaces as fixed and ordered. These spaces are not only physical but also conceptual, offering a counterpoint to traditional power structures. Here, the failure of dominant systems enables alternative forms of existence to emerge, unbound by conventional definitions of success or failure.
Julien Segard
Julien Segard
Kaamna Patel
Kaamna Patel is a photographer born in Mumbai, India. Her work explores the periphery of photographic documentation, often with themes of satire, illusion & the impossibility of representation. Her publishing house, Editions JOJO, was born as an extension of her practice with the book ‘In Today’s News: Alpha Males Women Power’ in May 2019. Editions JOJO has since metamorphosed into an independent publishing house, photobook library & an artist-led platform based in Mumbai where Kaamna embodies numerous roles.
Kaamna Patel
Kaamna Patel
Garima Gupta
Garima Gupta, a researcher and artist based in New Delhi, India documents micro-stories and events considered tenuous in ecological wars. In bringing these flotsams of ecological wreckage, her work invites us to witness as this refuse transforms into molecules of loss, migration, wants, imaginations, obsessions, frivolity and attachment - beckoning a change with and within, for a radically robust future of our ecosphere. Her fieldwork confides in drawing, film making and writing as a petition for documenting fringe narratives and critical auditing of archives - speculating, fabulating - that which is not uttered and seldom imagined. Drawing from the fragments of turmoil that she carefully gathers in these highly vulnerable and fragile ecosystems, she works slowly and carefully by layering these elements in her practice.
