Exploring themes of migration, identity, belonging and displacement, a new solo exhibition in the capital provides a poignant perspective on development and its human cost. Artist Akanksha Patil engages with Shivangaon, a village in Maharashtra impacted by the expansion of Nagpur airport. She spent two and a half years documenting every fragment of Shivangaon, deeply affected by the realities of urban expansion and forced migration, capturing its shift from a village to a demolition site. “Incorporating corrugated sheets, cardboard, ceramic, wood, cloth, bricks, cement, found materials, everyday objects and video projection, I present the community’s voices and loss,” she says.
Patil’s practice is deeply rooted in the idea of ‘saudade’—a Portuguese term expressing the melancholic longing for a home left behind. The works investigate displacement, urban expansion and the erosion…
