A selection of Vadehra Art Gallery's books.
In Europe and other parts of the world, funding and national endowments support art and cultural institutions and citizens themselves demand intellectual engagement as an essential element of public life. There is, in the same way, a compelling need for investment in the arts in India, where a lack of wider public engagement further contributes to its absence.
Perhaps it doesn’t help that the art world is often considered a world turned in on itself – out of touch and out of reach. Historically, the art gallery became synonymous with the term “white cube”, suggesting a space in which time, through the objects on display, could transcend its momentary inflections for a genuine glimpse of eternity. But despite walls that seem to move each time you visit, the gallery is actually an ideological space that is rooted in place. Our art ecosystem very much exists in, and responds to, the world we live in, and it is our primary responsibility to frame a discursive context around how we manage artists and how their work is consumed.