The Registry of Sarees presents the ‘Sense and Sensibilities’ Gallery at the Raw Collaborative show from 5th to 8th December at Gandhinagar. The gallery explores the textile landscape of the Indian subcontinent with the objective of a research and study centre dedicated to the exploration and preservation of hand spun and handwoven textiles. Championed by Ally Matthan, Trustee of The Registry of Sarees (www.theregistryofsarees.com), this gallery hopes to harness lessons from the past by assessing the process, materiality, and skills of contemporary practitioners – including artists, craftspersons and designers.The gallery will showcase the works of xx different practitioners of textiles, their associated craft, and interdisciplinary approaches to narrate political, historic, art and cultural movements of India, negating the idea of isolative practices. India has enjoyed the popularity of textiles defined by skill, materiality, and process even prior to the popular use of the word ‘design’. However, the invention and intervention of machinery and technology changed the dynamics of demand, production and supply.
Curated by a team led by Aayushi Jain (Archaeology and Museology, MSU Baroda) including spatial curation by Vishwesh Surve (Architect and Textile Designer) and Radha Paruleker (Textile Technical Curator and Researcher Designer) who have worked with contributors such as,Aratrik Dev Varman – Tilla, Danny Mehra, Shama Pawar of The Kishkinda Trust, Salim Wazir – Museum Quality Textiles, Jeevan Xavier – JLX Designs, Ramya Reddy – Coonor and Co, Arianna Ginwala -This and That, Vinay Narkar – Narkar Designs, Veeram Shah – Design ni Dukaan, Devya Singh-Cavallo Leathers and Ashita Singhal of Paiwand.The exhibition undertakes the study of pivotal movements in history such as Industrialization, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Minimalism, Cinema, and their influence on textiles. The exhibition presents a narrative of changing nuances in Indian textiles shared locally, regionally, nationally, and globally among people and their impact on communities and the environment.
