BONHAMS “You Also Live in Someone’s Eyes” - South Asian Modern & Contemporary Department
The Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art department at Bonhams and curator Vittoria Beltrame are pleased to present You Also Live in Someone’s Eyes, a selling exhibition bringing together works by Amrit Singh Sandhu, Anjuli Rathod, Kavitha Balasingham, Anousha Payne, and artist duo Nina Mhach Durban and Athen Kardashian.
The exhibition takes its title from a verse by Mumbai-based writer and poet Sanober Khan, a line that captures the profound notion that each of us exists in the consciousness of others: through love, admiration, memory, or even pain. The phrase suggests that identity is never fixed or solitary - it is formed through shared experience and perception.
Each of the artists in You Also Live in Someone’s Eyes engages with questions of selfhood, belonging, and inheritance. Their practices explore what it means to articulate the complexity of diasporic identity and the ways in which memory, displacement, and cultural hybridity inform creative expression. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing and installation, these artists weave together fragments of lived experience and collective history to build visual languages that are at once personal and universal.
Through their distinct material and conceptual approaches, the exhibition unfolds as a conversation about lineage and transformation: how emotion, memory, and familial tales are transmitted, altered, and reimagined across distance and time. In this shared space, the act of looking becomes reciprocal: to see is also to be seen, to hold and be held in the eyes of another.
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VIEWING
Sunday 7 December, 11am-3pm
Monday 8 December, 9am-5.30pm
Tuesday 9 December, 9am-2pm
AUCTION START TIME - December 9th
India 8.30pm
Dubai 7pm
New York 10am
Los Angeles 7am
Singapore 11pm
