Art for conservation’s sake

The ongoing exhibition, ‘Tale of a city’, urges viewers to think critically beyond the white cube spaces of the exhibition and its artworks. But in its storytelling, it holds from giving too much information.

A huge pen-and-ink artwork hangs on the walls of Siddhartha Art Gallery. One feels drawn into the artwork as the kaleidoscopic portrayal of traditional Newa houses converges into the centre hole. One of the 26 artworks of Sujan Dangol, the ‘Lunatic city’ is rife with cultural references of the Newa community along with lunar symbolism.