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Emerging Artists Tackle Crises of Our Time in Emami Art's IMAGINARIUM 5.0
8 Nov
Summary
- Emami Art's annual open call IMAGINARIUM 5.0 explores urgent questions through art
- Exhibition features 10 young Indian artists probing modern instability and fragmentation
- Three artists awarded IMAGINARIUM Awards by eminent jury
In November 2025, Emami Art's annual open call, IMAGINARIUM 5.0, is taking on the urgent question of how art can help us reimagine life on earth. The exhibition, titled "The Promise of the Depth of Being," features the works of 10 young and emerging Indian artists who are probing the crises of our time.
These artists, representing a vibrant cross-section of India's new artistic voices, are navigating personal memory, ecological fragility, urban alienation, and the intimate politics of existence through their practices. Their works explore the instability of meaning, the erosion of collective experience, and the shifting ground of what it means to be human today.
The curators note that the modern condition is not just the breakdown of social structures but a collapse in how we experience reality itself. Life feels fleeting, transient, stripped of permanence. In this context, IMAGINARIUM 5.0 positions art as a mode of reflection and resistance—a space where new ways of seeing, feeling, and belonging can emerge.
Among the 10 selected artists, Pankaj Sarma, Farhin Afza, and Rahul Sarkar have been awarded the first, second, and third IMAGINARIUM Awards, supported by the Emami Foundation and Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC). The artists were chosen by an eminent jury comprising Bindi Vora, Umah Jacob, Tallur L. N, Prasanta Sahu, and Ushmita Sahu.
