Part of NARS Season III Residency Exhibition It would hurt us – were we awake – , Curated by NARS Curatorial Fellow Daniela Meyer,
Aug 28 - Sept 16, 2025

Description from Press Release: “Indian artist Shivani Mithbaokar constructs a disjointed, spectral figure across four works: Ancestor’s Garden (2024–25), Burial Site (2022–25), and Corbel I and Corbel II (2025). On the floor, Ancestor’s Garden outlines a human-scaled, headless form in wispy white gouache and acrylic on found floral wallpaper, its elongated neck surging toward the wall. Punctuated by acid-green flourishes that hint at organic growth and decay, the figure lingers as a trace, simultaneously absorbed into and hovering over the work’s surface. Above, the painting Burial Site acts as a silent sentinel: hung at the height of the missing head, its small funerary mask in gouache and gold leaf on matching wallpaper casts its gaze downward. Mounted between the two paintings are Corbel I and Corbel II, glazed ceramic sculptures inspired by architectural supports from New York’s built environment. Their biomorphic phallic and vulvic forms reimagine stone ornament as soft anatomy, blurring structure and flesh. Together, the works assemble a disembodied anatomy trapped in limbo—an invisible presence indelibly imprinted on the imagined domestic space it once called home.”