Formation & Fracture at Method Delhi: Where Creation and Collapse Coexist

At Method Delhi this month, a new exhibition titled Formation & Fracture explores a compelling duality: the quiet tension between building and breaking. On view from July 4th to August 3rd, 2025, the show presents works by 13 alumni of the IMMERSE Fellowship by Somaiya Vidyavihar University — an initiative that supports emerging artists and curators across India. The venue, tucked away in the Defence Colony basement, has built a reputation for embracing fresh, critical, and often experimental art practices. This latest group show stays true to that ethos.

The idea behind Formation & Fracture is less about showcasing perfectly finished work and more about understanding the process — the making, the unmaking, and everything in between. It’s an exhibition that holds space for contradiction. The pieces on display examine how bodies, memories, systems, beliefs, and structures take shape — and how they sometimes fall apart. But the fractures here aren’t framed as failures. They’re part of the story. Sometimes even the most meaningful part.

There’s a noticeable honesty in the way this show has been assembled. The works feel personal without being didactic, vulnerable but not sentimental. Each artist brings a distinct voice, yet there’s a strong sense of cohesion. The tension between form and fragility plays out in unexpected ways — through material, through gesture, through absence. Some works feel like they’re still forming; others feel like they’re already collapsing. But all of them ask you to look closer.

The curatorial framework — grounded in the IMMERSE fellowship’s philosophy — encourages reflection over spectacle. Created by Al-Qawi Nanavati, Natasha Jeyasingh, Shaleen Wadhwana, and Siddharth Somaiya, the fellowship has become known for giving emerging artists not just resources, but a genuine support system. This show is a kind of culmination — not a polished conclusion, but a thoughtful pause in their ongoing practices.

Participating artists include Adarsh Palandi, Akash Biswas, Amith Nayak, Anup Let, Bhanu Shrivastav, Bhavin Patel, Bheeshma Sharma, Gaurang Naik, Hasan Ali Kadiwala, Richa Arya, Satyanarayana Gavara, Shikha Soni, and Siddharth Soni. What connects their work isn’t a shared aesthetic, but a shared openness to process — a willingness to question, deconstruct, rebuild, or just sit with uncertainty.

Method Delhi, with its commitment to emerging voices, feels like the right place for a show like this. Its quiet basement space encourages slowness, offering viewers the rare chance to really sit with art — to spend time, to pause, to notice. In many ways, Formation & Fracture isn’t just an exhibition. It’s a meditation on growth. And not the kind of growth that’s always forward or upward, but the kind that includes breakage, redirection, and renewal.

It’s worth visiting not just for what’s on the walls or floors, but for what the space itself holds — a sense of thoughtful experimentation, of people figuring things out through form. And maybe that’s the larger point. That formation and fracture are two sides of the same impulse. Both are part of how we move through the world. And both — in the right hands — can become art.

Exhibition Info:

Dates: July 4 – August 3, 2025

Timings: 12pm to 7pm (Closed on Mondays)

Venue: Method Delhi, D-59, Block D, Defence Colony, New Delhi

Website: themethod.art