Shared Lives, Distinct Visions

Artistic journeys are often imagined as solitary, yet behind many of modern India’s most compelling voices lie lives shared in companionship. This exhibition explores how intimacy, dialogue and mutual regard shaped the practices of artist couples whose creative paths unfolded side by side—distinct in expression yet intertwined in life, sustained by shared ecosystems and choices of partnership.

In these relationships, partnership becomes a quiet catalyst—encouraging experiment, offering critique and deepening understanding—while each artist continues to forge a path uniquely their own. Within these partnerships, art became both conversation and contrast.

Drawing from DAG’s extensive collections, this exhibition—among the largest of its kind—offers a lens into these partnerships and the diverse practices they nurtured. It celebrates not collaboration alone, but the quiet strength of parallel visions that evolved in dialogue: affirming that love, trust and critical exchange can become fertile grounds for creativity. Among the couples featured are Madhvi and Manu Parekh, Arpita and Paramjit Singh, Devayani and Kanwal Krishna, Gulammohammed and Nilima Sheikh, Reba and Somnath Hore, Jyotsna and Jyoti Bhatt and others.