Rituals of Impermanence

Event Name: Rituals of Impermanence
Artists: Jayesh Sharma

If memory and tradition are held not as fixed monuments but as fleeting gestures caught between presence and absence, Rituals of Impermanence invites viewers into a visual meditation on the fragile endurance of cultural practices. The exhibition captures not only bodies and forms but the echo of lived histories as they fade, shift and reconfigure in the changing rhythms of time.

Jayesh Sharma presents work from an eight-year photographic project documenting the tradition of Kushti wrestling and the akhadas where it has long been performed. Over the course of the project, the focus shifted from the wrestlers themselves to the empty spaces they inhabit, revealing how absence and decay come to carry the history and spirit of practice.

The exhibition offers visitors a chance to sit with images that speak of what remains and what slips away, where the architecture of ritual becomes a living testimony to impermanence. Through stark imagery and quiet observation, Rituals of Impermanence prompts reflection on change, remembrance and the ways cultural memory is held in spaces as much as in people.