Art Mumbai: Group Show | 13 November - 16 November 2024

Vikram Divecha (born 1977, Beirut) is a Mumbai-bred artist based in Dubai. His work addresses labour, time, and value—interrogating specific environments and challenging socio-economic structures. His practice has developed around what he calls ‘found processes’: the forces and capacities at work within state, social, economic, and industrial spheres. Negotiating for materials, space, and labour, Divecha collaborates with communities, creating slow transformations that persist beyond exhibition timelines. His works often emerge from invisible infrastructures yet take on striking material form: regimented boulders, stylised hedges, stacks of goods. Through public art, sculpture, video, and drawing, he repositions overlooked operations—from gardeners’ gestures to the flow of commodities—so they become quietly radical acts of seeing and sustaining urban life.

Divecha’s recent highlights include his first survey exhibition Short Circuit at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2024), accompanied by a publication featuring contributions from invited writers; a public commission, Roof/Structures, at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai (2025); participation in After Rain, the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2024); and inclusion in Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial at NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2025).

Richi Bhatia (b. 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist based in the UAE. Her practice spans drawing, performance, object-making, food intervention, and assemblage. Rooted in embodied research and long, labor-intensive processes, her work explores the body as a sensing tool navigating memory, illness, environment, labor, market, and social systems. Blending the private with the public and the human with the nonhuman through performance and ethnographic inquiry, she invites audiences into encounters that challenge normative categories and passive spectatorship.

Her works and performances have been featured at Foundry, Gallery Isabelle, Al Serkal Foundation, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Bikner House, New Delhi, among others. Bhatia also works within the curatorial premise apart from her own artistic research practice.