Current Exhibitions

In Search of a Space by Lochan Upadhyay

In Search of a Space brings together a series of drawings and sculptural installations that explore ideas of migration, home, and cultural memory. These works come from a deep and ongoing interest in how we relate to places—not as fixed or permanent, but as constantly changing through movement, memory, and imagination.

The sculptural installations serve as spatial explorations of these themes, using wood, metal, and found materials in a process of intuitive assemblage. These works convey the experience of displacement not through direct imagery, but through the language of form that feel suspended, loosely held together, or precariously balanced. These forms are not merely built, but marked and shaped through a sculptural language that blends construction with gesture. They become vessels of memory and movement, fragments carrying stories of what has been left behind and what might still be built.

The drawings offer a similar physical engagement with space, even though they are made on flat surfaces. They operate not as preparatory studies, but as autonomous sculptural acts. Using materials like automobile spray, ink, and charcoal, the drawings are created through a slow, layered process guided by intuition. They form abstract, dreamlike spaces that seem to move and shift, suggesting depth, tension, and emotion. In these works, drawing becomes a way of building space, much like sculpture. These lines of inquiry converge in the drawing installation In Search of a Space, where sculptural forms, collected objects, and drawings cohabit a single environment. The installation operates like a fragmented map—part memory, part reconstruction—offering a space where gestures, materials, and narratives intersect.

Together, the works reflect a quiet but ongoing search for a space where memory, identity, and belonging can take form. They don’t offer clear answers, but invite viewers to enter these delicate, layered worlds and imagine their own place within them.

Date : July 9th to August 17th, 2025,

Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Sunday Closed)

Access Level: Public

Location/Venue: Public Arts Trust of India HQ, 72, Lane, No. 3, Harikishan Somani Marg, Gopalbari, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302001

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Marks That Move: A Materiality Workshop with Lochan Upadhyay

17:00 - 19:00 PM | 11th March 2025

To engage participants in Lochan’s process by exploring his materials—charcoal, automobile spray, paper, and found objects—and encouraging creative expression grounded in their own reflections on space and identity.

This workshop invites participants to immerse themselves in Lochan Upadhyay’s experimental material practice. Using tools and mediums the artist employs in his drawings, attendees will be guided through exercises that emphasize intuitive mark-making and spatial thinking. Drawing from memory, movement, and material response, participants will explore how surface and substance can evoke the architecture of thought and experience. Open to artists, designers, and anyone interested in exploring creative forms beyond the traditional.