Offering you a seat the table,
This Seat Is Reserved is an invitation to reflect on the chairs’ ubiquity in our everyday lives. Through a process of meaning-making, the artists in the exhibition engage in an
ideological dismantling, reflecting on their
own personal histories and art practices to
posit our understanding of the chair across different contexts, moments in history, its various uses, functions and affect.

What narratives do these objects hold, and how do they shape our collective memory?
Whose presence is acknowledged, and whose absence is overlooked?
How do we engage with these objects as markers of authority, access, and exclusion?

Discover the objects’ ability to act as a medium through which desires are transferred, power is projected, cities are built, behaviour is directed, and answers are found.
We’ve reserved you a seat…

Participating artists:
Anikesa Ding, Brihat Rai, Fatema Halvadwala, Lochan Upadhyay, Nilanjan Das, Raghu Rai, KnoChill, Tarika Sabherwal