All That Was Left Behind

VM Art Gallery presents ‘All That Was Left Behind’, an exhibition featuring the works of Nain Tara and Zahabia Khozema. This exhibition brings together two practices that explore how memory persists in the wake of erasure and transformation.

Working across painting, drawing, and sculpture, Tara’s practice begins with a question of relation: what does it mean to remain in contact with what is no longer fully present? Engaging memory and material transformation through acts of repair and absence, she uses acrylic on canvas in combination with wire mesh. Her works hold fragmentation without resolution, allowing traces of what has been lost to remain embedded within surface and structure.

In relation, Khozema constructs narrative, image-based landscapes drawn from lived recollections of an industrial town in Central Punjab, now shaped by extraction, environmental change, and gradual disappearance. These scenes unfold through fragments of story and atmosphere, where memory is reassembled through image and place in oil paint and oil pastel.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, April 18th,2026, from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm and will continue till May 13th, 2026, with gallery timings from 11 am to 7 pm Monday to Saturday.