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Manish Nai’s works engage in complex processes and protocols of creation, recalling ethics of fabrication that appears mostly lost in the frenzy of mass-scale production. The works are presented as a tightly organized unit through media that are often cheap and ubiquitous, alluding to both hierarchies of artistic production and Indian social structures. Nai comes from a family of textile artisans, and he uses discarded clothes and fabric to create minimalist forms that vary in colour from exuberant to meditative inviting the audience to reflect on the extraordinary potential of art to renew and rethink the mundane.

The work was featured as part of the exhibition 'Asymmetrical Objects', curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and co-curated by Himanshu Kadam. The exhibition presented the works of ten contemporary artists whose practice includes an interest in nature and science or consumption and degradation as process and product, to respond to these ideas and to explore the much-debated Age of the Anthropocene and its impact on the environment and the effects on biodiversity.