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VIBHA GALHOTRA

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Vibha Galhotra (b. 1978, Kaithal, Haryana) is a New Delhi–based multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the environmental, political, and economic turbulences shaping contemporary urban life. Working across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and participatory projects, she interrogates the accelerated transformations of globalisation and their impact on ecology, labour, and collective futures.

Galhotra’s work has been presented at major museums and institutions including the Asia Society, New York; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne; San José Museum of Art; and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. Recent group exhibitions include Politically Charged (Aicon Gallery, New York, 2024), Voir Dire — Part II (AMCA, Mumbai, 2025), Shared Worlds (Exhibit 320, New Delhi, 2025), as well as Nature and State (Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022), Breathing (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2022), One That Includes Myth (Goodman Gallery, London, 2022), and Markers of Phantasmopolis (8th Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan, 2023).

About The Work

Courtesy of Nature Morte, India

Broken Maze of Memories continues the artist’s exploration of material transformation and urban memory, extending ideas from her earlier project Future Fables. Created as a site-specific intervention at Jaigarh Fort in Jaipur, the work draws a dialogue between the fort’s timeless stillness and the fractured, uncertain realities of our present.

 

This work is a meditation on what remains, the residues of cities, the scars of conflict, and the quiet aftermath of human ambition. Made from found rubble and discarded construction debris, the sculpture reassembles fragments that once held purpose, now rendered mute by time and circumstance. By reclaiming these materials, the artist attempts to translate the anxieties of our age, the restlessness of urban expansion, the devastation of war, and the slow violence of environmental collapse into a tangible form.

 

Within the fort’s enduring walls, Broken Maze of Memories stands as both witness and question. It mirrors the disorientation of our times, a space where we wander between right and wrong, creation and ruin, searching for meaning amidst the debris. In this timeless zone, the past and present blur, and the rubble becomes a quiet testimony to the fragility of all that we build, remember, and eventually lose. 

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