Afra Al Dhaheri, A line for the eye to wander, 2025
The 5th edition of the Sculpture Park is back in Jaipur from January 28 to October 15, 2025, championing ideas, materials, and techniques that inform modern art. The exhibit is being hosted at Vijay Garhi—a sprawling courtyard at the Jaigarh Fort— opening to visitors after 120 years; this was once known to be a jail and later an ammunition storehouse. Each room (then cell) is catalogued to present unique three-dimensional sculptures crafted in mixed media including stone, fibre, wood, plastic, ceramics, bronze, stainless steel, and more. With more than 25 contemporary sculptures juxtaposed against the mehraabs (undulating arches), fortress walls, crevices, and araish walls of the Jaigarh Fort, the exhibition invites you to engage with art and history all at once.
A line for the eye to wander (2025) by Afra Al Dhaheri
A mixed-media site-specific installation, Dhaheri’s work appears like ropes suspended along the lengths of the room. It is informed by her previous research and responding to an elegant poetry by Byung-Chul Han from The Scent of Time which reads, “Dyschronicity lets time whizz, so to speak. The feeling that life is accelerating is really the experience of time that is whizzing without a direction.”
The earth pulls us down to ground us. Grounding means slowing down and observing, becoming conscious of our surroundings, and absorbing, and processing. Dhaheri says, “I ground myself in the process of making work, constantly deconstructing, and reconstructing elements of the material and concept.”