This year at India Art Fair, Nature Morte is pleased to be present a group of works by both Indian and international artists, including Subodh Gupta, Manu Parekh, Jitish Kallat, Dayanita Singh, Manish Nai, Ragini Bhow, Sagarika Sundaram, Bharti Kher, Asim Waqif, Dhruvi Acharya, Ayesha Singh, Abir Karmakar, Mona Rai, Viswanadhan, Vibha Galhotra, Matti Braun, Oliver Beer Eddie Martinez and Raghav Babbar.

On view at the booth will be archival pigment prints by Dayanita Singh. Created over two decades, the works showcase the breadth of mediums used by the artist. Singh’s ‘Architectural Montages’ features archival pigment prints that are innovative constructions blending fragments of real spaces into imagined ones, defying traditional perspectives on time, place and reality. Rooted in her fascination with light and form, these capture architectural elements from various eras and locations, including structures in India, Japan, Italy and Sri Lanka. Bharti Kher’s 2018 sculpture, entitled "The Watchman", exemplifies her fascination with the iconography of mythologies and hybridized figures, as it combines the male and the female, alluding to the androgynous form of Ardhnarisvara. Dual identity is explored with a different approach by London-based Indian artist Raghav Babbar, whose figurative works bring to life subjects rooted in his Indian heritage. His technique has drawn comparisons with 20th century British styles, particularly his layering of oil paint and bold brush strokes.

A painting on paper by Manu Parekh, dated 2021, from his “Flowers from Heaven" series, will also be on display. Best known for his Banaras Landscapes, Parekh’s works are characterised by his intuitive use of colour, bold brushstrokes, and powerful compositions. He has experimented with colourful abstractions, sexual imagery and figuration, responding as much to nature as to daily life and social issues. The women in his works are represented as nature spirits, plantforms, germinating seeds and allegorical figures, recalling mythological traditions.

Artist duo Thukral & Tagra will have a work from their Arboretum series. Previously showcased at Nature Morte in both New Delhi (2023) and Mumbai (2024), the works juxtapose images of flora with pixelated geometrics representing technical glitches. The work aims to initiate a discourse on humans’ altering relationship with nature, as the cloud of technology engulfs us from every direction.International highlights from this year’s booth include German artist Matti Braun’s untitled painting on silk and a sculpture of iridescent glass spheres. Both pieces were exhibited at Braun’s first show in India, entitled "Noil," earlier this year at Nature Morte’s Mumbai gallery.The works exemplify Braun’s preoccupation with Indian history and traditions, which he was first introduced to when he visited the country 20 years ago. His relationship with India only deepened with subsequent visits, resulting in his practice being deeply affected by Indian personalities such as Satyajit Ray, Vikram Sarabhai and Rabindranath Tagore. 'Love and Validation’ from Oliver Beer’s Resonance Painting series offers an introduction to the British artist’s unique technique that freezes musical notes of the song he was listening to while creating each work. He lays a canvas covered with dry powder over a speaker playing music, and lets the powder create different patterns when exposed to the sound waves. Beer then freezes these patterns to create abstract works that are a visual representation of that particular song.