The Personal is Mythical examines how contemporary artistic practices in India reframe myth as a powerful mode of storytelling. The exhibition moves between private memory and collective imagination to confront binaries such as "folk" and "high" art, "craft" and "concept, " the "vernacular" and the "global."
Foregrounding the work of Bhajju Shyam, Neha Sahai, and Viraj Khanna, The Personal is Mythical does not propose a reductive fusion of indigenous and contemporary art forms, but engages with the tensions embodied by marginalised practices within dominant frameworks.
Viraj Khanna's practice draws from textile, performance, and post-pop collage. His use of masks, stitching, and fragmented forms suggests that the nature of identity-like myth-is performative and contested. Khanna interrogates the notion of the "authentic" as it has been shaped by consumer culture, modernity, and inherited ideologies, situating his work within conversations on identity and representation in contemporary Indian art.