’Four Walls, One Square Feet, A Piece of Sky…”, an exhibition by Anjana Mehra at the Nine Fish Art Gallery, Mumbai from 2nd December 2024 to 4th January 2025 is a mixed media visual exploration of the transactional unit of real estate space in which entire generations of urban dwellers live out their lives, dreams and dashed hopes.

In this series, square footage is the measure used for a commodity space called ‘home’. The artist is critiquing and looking rhythmically at our environment, at our new age which is driven by the dogmas of growth and development. She has used found images from daily newspapers, magazines and scenes from her current environment in these paintings.

Her observation is that something is not rotten in the state but in the viscera of civil society and in our own systems. She questions the notion of progress with the stubborn opposition and stance of a protester.

The re-imagining of the boxed structure, vitreous facade, gleaming metal, vacant building, empty warehouse, aging land and the wave-less sea is tinged with the regret and loss of a living space – a zone where a smoking chimney meant industrial activity and high technological spirit rather than economic re-haul, refurbishment, expansion and anarchic development.

Opening / Preview Date: 1st December 2024, 6.30 pm onwards

Exhibition Dates: 2nd December 2024 to 4th January 2025

Time: 10:30 am to 7:30 pm
Address: Nine Fish Art Gallery
The New Great Eastern Mills, Salsette- 27, 25-29 Dr. Ambedkar Road, Inside Salsette 27 Compound, Near Rani Baug, Byculla East, Mumbai 400027.