Future Exhibitions

Strand Gallery
April 11 - July 5, 2026

Preetika Rajgariah
about time

Preetika Rajgariah’s exhibition, about time, brings together culturally charged materials such as yoga mats and saris to examine cultural appropriation, body politics, intersectionality, and longing. Her work moves between memory and material, asking how the body carries history and how inherited narratives shape the way we are seen, and see ourselves. The figure, often her own, anchors the exhibition. Rajgariah bends, twists, arches, folds, and at times appears to break open. These gestures are not only physical; they mirror the mental and emotional gymnastics of navigating multiple cultural frameworks at once. Rajgariah uses the body as a profound bridge, between the personal and the ancestral, the private and the political, the sacred and the commodified. Her vibrant assemblages hold tension and tenderness simultaneously. Acts of cutting, stitching, layering, and binding become meditative rituals, expressions of care as much as thematic critique. In reworking materials that are often flattened or exoticized, Rajgariah reclaims agency and complexity. The result is an exhibition that resists erasure while honoring resilience, inviting viewers into a space where vulnerability, strength, and longing coexist.

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