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Map the Echo Between Two Artists and Discover a Shared Ethos at This New Delhi Exhibition
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Threshold Art Gallery presents Intimate Terrains, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Shanti Swaroopini (India) and Michal Glikson (Australia), on view from 18 January to 28 February 2026.
The exhibition traces a resonant relationship between two artists whose practices diverge in form yet converge in ethos. Both share formative training at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara—an environment that shaped their commitment to material experimentation, embodied making, and art as a response to lived experience. Their practices unfold as evolving archives of gesture and memory, revealing affinities between Swaroopini’s introspective figuration and Glikson’s nomadic, scroll-based mapping.
This grounding manifests distinctly in each artist’s work. Swaroopini turns inward, examining the body as a site of inscription and transformation, while Glikson turns outward, tracing landscapes, encounters, and atmospheres through movement. Swaroopini’s works on paper and in sculpture articulate the figure through layering, erasure, and reassertion, creating surfaces that register the pressures and resistances shaping women’s lives. Glikson’s long scrolls and field films accumulate impressions gathered across continents—gestures observed, atmospheres noted, encounters woven into portable narrative forms. Her practice, deeply influenced by the Patua and Miniature traditions of South Asia, unfolds through journeys across India and Australia, weaving histories, landscapes, and lived encounters into a continuous, moving canvas of cross-cultural storytelling.
Gallerist Tunty Chauhan notes, “I brought Shanti Swaroopini and Michal Glikson together because their practices, though materially distinct, speak to two inseparable dimensions of identity. Shanti works inward, using tactile, intimate forms to explore the body as a vessel of emotional and ancestral memory. Michal works outward, mapping lived journeys and fleeting encounters through her travelling scrolls. One reveals the quiet interior architecture of experience; the other traces how we move through the world.”
She adds, “Together, these artists construct a powerful dialogue between the sculptural and the narrative. Seen together, they reveal that identity is neither fixed nor singular, but a constant negotiation—an intimate terrain shaped by experience, place, movement, memory, and the stories we choose to carry.”
Reflecting on her practice, Michal Glikson says, “I wish there was such a thing as a storyteller passport because I belong nowhere and everywhere. I feel I belong to the story that wants to be told, to the event that wants to be witnessed, to the being who wants to be drawn and remembered as a miniature painting in my scroll.”
Shanti Swaroopini shares, “My work turns inward, to the body as a site of inscription and transformation. Through layering, erasure, and reassertion, I trace the pressures and resistances that shape women’s lives. Each surface becomes a palimpsest of lived experience—fragile yet resilient, marked by memory and renewal. I see my practice as a way of listening to interior states, allowing material itself to carry the weight of struggle, survival, and becoming.”
Both artists regard the artwork as a continuum of experience—a vessel of time, gesture, and human presence. Their practices intersect through a shared attentiveness to the world, a commitment to material exploration, and a belief in art as a process of continual transformation.
Exhibition Details
Intimate Terrains
Shanti Swaroopini & Michal Glikson
18 January – 28 February 2026
Monday to Saturday, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm (Sunday by appointment)
Threshold Art Gallery, C-221, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi
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