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Unstill Life: Dheer Kaku at Method Kala Ghoda
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Unstill Life is a solo exhibition by Dheer Kaku, currently on view at Method Kala Ghoda. The works in the show focus on architectural spaces, but they are not about buildings in a literal sense. They speak more about inner states, memory, and the difficulty of finding calm.
Dheer Kaku grew up with very little private space. As a result, he became attentive to small corners, terraces, gaps between structures, and edges that often go unnoticed. These spaces offered him a sense of order and control. That early experience forms the base of Unstill Life. The drawings are built around similar ideas of containment and restraint.
The works are layered. Lines appear, disappear, and return. Erasure is as important as drawing. The process is visible and intentional. Instead of arriving at a final image quickly, each work holds traces of hesitation, revision, and emotional control. Strong feelings are not expressed directly. They are slowed down and examined.
Although the exhibition takes reference from the still-life tradition, it questions the idea of stillness itself. The spaces shown feel unsettled. They appear fragile and unstable, as if they could shift or break at any moment. This reflects the artist’s interest in how difficult it is to achieve inner calm when the mind remains restless.
There is also a wider observation running through the show. Shared outdoor spaces, once common in everyday life, have slowly disappeared. Living has moved indoors, into smaller and more closed environments. The drawings reflect this change. Interiors feel compressed. Structures seem to struggle to hold together. Yet they do not collapse completely.
What remains noticeable is that beauty refuses to leave. Even in damaged or fractured spaces, softness appears. Meaning continues to exist. The works suggest that humans keep searching for order and comfort, even when surrounded by instability.
Dheer Kaku’s larger practice moves across drawing, lens-based media, and installation. He often works with ideas of time, decay, and material remains. His ongoing series Casual Thoughts of Doom looks at objects and spaces shaped by conflict, media, politics, and environmental damage, imagining how they might be understood in the future.
He holds a BFA from Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts, Mumbai, and received the INLAKS Fine Art Award. His work has been shown in India and internationally, including exhibitions at Filet Space in London, Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai, and the Goa Open Arts Festival. He has also been part of residencies at KHOJ in New Delhi and Space 118 in Mumbai. He is currently based in Goa.
Unstill Life fits naturally within Method’s approach to art. Method positions itself as a space that allows experimentation, reflection, and conversation, rather than fixed outcomes. The exhibition does not try to provide answers. It stays with uncertainty and allows it to exist quietly.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition: Unstill Life
Artist: Dheer Kaku
Venue: Method Kala Ghoda, 86, Nagindas Master Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai
On View Until: 15th February 2026
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