Art Alive Gallery
Presents
Whispered Continuum
by
Smriti Dixit
Preview: Friday, 28th November, 2025.
The show will be on view at Art Alive Gallery till 5th January, 2026.
Art Alive Gallery brings to you Whispered Continuum, a solo show of works by Smriti Dixit.
Nature, in its quiet persistence, forms the core of Smriti Dixit’s artistic inquiry. Whispered
Continuum draws inspiration from the natural landscape and coastal flora near Smriti Dixit’s
home in suburban Mumbai, where every creeper, palm, and ripple becomes a metaphor for
resilience and transition. Dixit’s works are imaginative recreations of sensations and
memories — nuanced reflections on the cycles of growth, decay, and renewal that define
both nature and human experience.
The alluring sculptural installations, rendered in a predominantly monochromatic palette
with red as a prominent hue, draw viewers into their folds of coiled and knotted intricacies.
These strange yet intuitively familiar forms embody the beauty of the organic and the
unfinished. As Dixit notes, “I think my work is a celebration of the beauty of the ordinary. I
understand how rare it is to be ordinary today. I like to describe my work as an array of
different wavelengths that capture the essence of germination. Things don’t simply appear
in nature — they germinate slowly, taking the time they need.”
Evolving since 1995, her process of coiling, weaving, and stitching fabric and found materials
is both meditative and transformative — a celebration of nature’s continuity and a quiet
critique of our culture’s impulse to tame it.
“My works are visuals that I collide with and collaborate with daily, they're more like
memories of said visuals. It's an attempt at observing again what has already been observed
and the method of revealing the observed by expressing oneself in the endless possibilities
of letting a piece of cloth be a piece of cloth in all its extent.”
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Smriti Dixit, Artist
“We are delighted to bring Smriti Dixit’s work to Delhi after two decades. A pioneer in her
field, she has been working with the medium of textile since the last three decades and this
body of work reaffirms her deep engagement with materiality and her medium. As textile art
gains momentum in the global art circuit, her body of work becomes increasingly relevant,
initiating conversations around human experiences and their intrinsic connection to nature.”
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Sunaina Anand, Founder-Director, Art Alive Gallery
ART ALIVE GALLERY
Founded in 2001, Art Alive is a contemporary art gallery based in New Delhi. The gallery has
been committed to creating a culture of engagement between art connoisseurs, art
enthusiasts and artists. It represents well known contemporary artists from all over India
and has organized shows of Indian art in London, Chicago, Palo Alto, Seoul, Dubai, Sydney,
Singapore and Abu Dhabi.
The gallery presents a holistic showcase of contemporary, modern and emerging art from
the country through its curated exhibitions and retrospectives, artist talks and extensively
researched books and catalogues promoting a multi-faceted approach to art. With a vision
to stimulate art practices in the contemporary sphere, the gallery also works steadily in
promoting young talent from the country and offers its space for incubation of new
narratives and fresh creative vision.
Art Alive Gallery has also ventured into publications to contribute in documenting and
archiving contemporary Indian art, publishing a range of books and catalogues. Some of the
notable publications are Faces of Indian Art, 2007, A Life in Art: S.H. Raza, 2007, a
comprehensive, deeply researched publication with rare material from the artist’s archive,
The World on a Canvas: Paresh Maity, 2010, and most recently, 20th Century Indian Art,
2022, a critically acclaimed landmark publication showcasing the history of Indian art across
the subcontinent and South Asia from the late-nineteenth century to the present day
published in association with Thames and Hudson.
A regular participant in international art fairs and events, Art Alive Gallery aspires to build
aesthetically active visual experiences, promote emerging perspectives and assist the
growth of Indian art on a global platform.