The Chinubhai Baronet House in Ahmedabad holds several histories within a single structure. Architectural influences, domestic rituals and generations of inhabitation coexist within its spaces, with each leaving traces of what came before. Rather than a fixed monument to the past, the house reveals history as something continuously accumulated, adapted and lived. For its presentation at IAF Edi+ions, Ahmedabad, Nature Morte takes this idea of continuity as a point of departure, bringing together six artists whose practices consider how histories persist through objects, materials and forms.

The presentation features works by Mona Rai, Subodh Gupta, Vibha Galhotra, Manisha Parekh, Amit Mahadev Dombhare and Bhuvanesh Gowda, bringing together distinct approaches to accumulation, transformation and the passage of time. Moving between the domestic and the monumental, the built environment and the organic world, the works reflect on how memory is held in material and how the past continues to shape the present.

Subodh Gupta transforms everyday utensils into a continuous sculptural loop that speaks to ritual and shared memory. Vibha Galhotra approaches architecture as a site where personal, cultural, and urban narratives overlap. Mona Rai assembles discarded fragments into richly layered compositions, giving new life to materials marked by use and time. Amit Dombhare draws on organic and indigenous materials to explore the relationship between land, memory, and inherited knowledge, while Manisha Parekh’s and Bhuvanesh Gowda’s sculptural practice draw on organic processes of growth, adaptation, and renewal. Together, these works suggest that history is not something left behind, but something continually carried forward. Each artist approaches this idea differently: through objects that hold traces of everyday life, materials shaped by use and transformation, architectural and urban environments, or the processes of the natural world. What connects them is an attention to accumulation and the way places, objects and forms gather meaning over time.