Nature Morte is pleased to present Shapes of time, a group exhibition on view at its Dhan Mill space in New Delhi. Curated by Neeraja Poddar, this exhibition brings together a diverse set of artistic practices and considers how time is understood not as a fixed structure but as something shaped by experience, memory, and the rhythms of the world around us.

The exhibition explores myriad ways of thinking about time. In Indian philosophical traditions, time is often understood as cyclical: marked by repetition, renewal, and the constant movement between creation and dissolution. In contrast, modern Western thought has tended to frame time as linear, tied to ideas of progress and forward movement. Shapes of Time does not position these as opposites but as co-existing frameworks that continue to inform how time is imagined and lived.

Across the exhibition, artists approach time through a range of materials and methods, moving between the personal and the expansive. Some works reflect on cycles found in nature and daily life through growth, decay, and repetition, while others draw on memory, perception, and the shifting ways in which time is experienced internally. The exhibition moves between different scales of time, from the historic and cosmic to the intimate and immediate, bringing attention to how these registers often overlap. Rather than presenting a single narrative, the exhibition unfolds as a series of encounters with time in different forms: fragmented, layered, and often contradictory.