WHERE ART BREATHES

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The experience of this dialogue often begins at Aspinwall House, a sprawling, seafacing compound that once served as the headquarters of a British trading company. Here, the architecture is a participant in the work. In the high-ceilinged rooms where clerks once tallied ledger books, the Panjeri Artists’ Union, a collective from the fluid borderlands of eastern India, has staged a dense, chaotic intervention. Their work responds to the realities of a region defined by the partition of the subcontinent—a place of surveillance, restricted movement, and river disputes.