Thapar Contemporary’s inaugural programme unfolded through two parallel events during the India Art Fair: The Engineering of Rubble, presented at the gallery, and a new iteration of SupaStore, a site-specific project by London-based artist Sarah Staton, installed in the grounds of Bikaner House.

The Engineering of Rubble brought together works by Europe-based contemporary artists. The exhibition explored ways of gently reorganising chaos, allowing disorder to remain unresolved rather than demanding a fixed conclusion. The works considered what might be found in the broken, the incomplete and the leftover, and how meaning can persist after an object’s original purpose has dissolved.

Rather than constructing a stable architecture of walls, frames or screens, the exhibition proposed one built through attention, pause and reconsideration. Fractured and incomplete forms became evidence of matter’s capacity to endure, carrying histories of use, loss and transformation.

At Bikaner House, SupaStore, an event-based, durational travelling artwork conceived by Sarah Staton, operated as a temporary store and site of dialogue, prompting reflection on the frameworks through which artistic value is constructed.

Together, the two projects formed distinct yet connected interventions, inviting audiences to dwell within disorder, unsettle linear narratives of history and consider how meaning might emerge from what remains.


Artists:

Ali Glover, Ana Genovés, Charo Garaigorta, Damien Meade, Ian Dawson, Ian Gouldstone, Katrin Hanush, Mike Marshall, Oona Grimes, Robin Megannity, and Sarah Staton.