Posted on 27 September 2025:
RTUSAMHĀRA: Shibani Sehgal’s Solo Exhibition at New Delhi
Triveni Art Gallery presents RTUSAMHĀRA, a solo exhibition by artist and art historian Shibani Sehgal. Inspired by the changing moods of the seasons, this evocative showcase will be on view from 9 to 16 October 2025, daily between 11 AM and 8 PM. Set within the serene halls of Triveni Kala Sangam, 205 Tansen Marg, New Delhi, the exhibition offers a quiet space to reflect, connect and experience Sehgal’s poetic vision through art.
Drawing inspiration from John Milton’s Paradise Lost—“Sing O Heav’nly Muse…in the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth / Rose out of Chaos,”—Shibani Sehgal’s exhibition explores the quiet dance between chance and order.
“Sehgal transforms fragments of paper, often discarded remnants, into lyrical collages that echo the vitality of spring, or Rituraj Basant.”
Shibani Sehgal is an Indian artist and illustrator whose mixed-media works gently weave together nature and memory. With a BFA in Painting from the College of Art, New Delhi, and a Gold Medal-winning Master’s in History of Art from the National Museum Institute, her journey blends creative expression with deep scholarship. Her art has travelled across India, Europe, and the United States, finding a place in both private and institutional collections—including that of a former Vice President of India.
Yet, at the heart of her practice lies a quiet devotion to process: cutting, layering, and shaping fragments into tender collages that speak of transformation. Through paper and pigment, Sehgal creates luminous spaces where emotion and thought meet in stillness.
“My art is an intuitive dialogue with nature,” says Shibani Sehgal, “expressing not simply what I see but what I feel—where the rhythms and textures of the world are transformed into visual form,” she added.
Born in spring, Sehgal draws deeply from the season’s spirit of renewal. The joy of bloom, the gentle chaos of growth, and the turning cycles of time shape her palette, reminding us that beauty often rises from disorder. In her hands, nature becomes not just a subject, but a feeling—layered, textured and tender.
A Dance Between Chaos and Meaning
For Shibani Sehgal, collage is “painting without a brush”—a quiet act of assembling fragments until they sing in harmony. She cuts, layers, and arranges with instinct, letting each piece find its place through discovery rather than design.
During the pandemic, paper became her sole companion. What began as a constraint unfolded into creative freedom, sparking new experiments in mixed media. From scraps and textures, she shaped a language of her own—where form and color speak in whispers. Her surfaces shimmer with gold, silver and copper, catching light like memory itself.
Birds, leaves and flowers appear not as exact images but as fleeting impressions, gestures that evoke presence.
In Sehgal’s collages, simplicity meets intricacy, and chance finds its rhythm in intention.
