Sifr: An Exploration of Zero, A Solo Show by Gunjan Chawla Kumar

Exhibit 320 is pleased to announce Sifr, a solo exhibition by artist, scholar, and educator Gunjan Chawla Kumar, shaped through the curatorial lens and text of Anushka Rajendran.

Opening on Friday, 28th November 2025, the show will be on view until Monday, 5th January 2026. Sifr brings together an extensive body of work that reflects Kumar’s long-standing engagement with material history, metaphysics, and the elemental relationship between matter and movement.

Rooted in years of travel across India and South Asia, Gunjan Chawla Kumar’s practice over the last two years spans archaeological sites, prehistoric art, indigenous crafts and traditional textiles, deepening her engagement with material histories.

In Sifr, she presents over 60 works in muslin, paper and pigment that explore presence and absence, extending these foundations into a meditation on zero as both void and vessel, stillness and motion.

“Sifr, for me, is the point where material and spirit collapse into one another,” shares artist Gunjan Chawla Kumar. “It is an attempt to listen to matter at its most elemental: pigment, earth, fibre, and to allow each gesture to reveal what lies between presence and erasure. In these repetitions, I look for the moment where a form becomes a movement, and a movement becomes a thought.”

Working with natural pigments, handwoven cotton, clay from North India, and river sediments from Chicago, Kumar creates drawings, paintings, and sculptures that distil her experiences into the granular life of pigment. The exhibition highlights her exploration of primary forms, particularly the cone, whose spiralling structure embodies movement and continuity.

Anushka Rajendran situates Sifr within wider inquiries into simultaneity, motion, and the ethics of looking, framing Kumar’s work as one that enacts historical processes while engaging with contemporary urgencies.

“Gunjan’s practice embodies the kind of material and conceptual rigour that aligns closely with Exhibit 320’s vision”, says Rasika Kajaria, Founder-Director, Exhibit 320. “Sifr brings together her years of research, travel, and experimentation into a language that is both meditative and expansive.”

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Reflecting a world in flux, Sifr turns repetition into both resistance and renewal. Turmeric, indigo, and vermilion, materials rooted in gendered labour, are abstracted into pure pigment, their transformation revealing the restless, uncontainable spirit of zero.