Please join us and curator Gayatri Sinha for a guided walkthrough as she takes us through the representation of the figure of the ascetic over the last three hundred years.

Gayatri Sinha is an Indian art critic and curator based in New Delhi, India. Her primary areas of research are around the structures of gender and iconography, media, economics and social history.

The Body of the Ascetic explores how asceticism has been represented across diverse spiritual and cultural traditions in the history of the Indian subcontinent. Featuring works that span different mediums, time periods, and identities, the exhibition presents a nuanced view of the ascetic figure.