New Delhi: Entangled Ecologies featuring new works by Delhi-based artist Ritu Kamath opened in Triveni Gallery at Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi. The exhibition previewed on July 21, 2026 at 6.00 pm and will be on view till July 31, 2026. The well attended exhibition had Sushma K Bahl, independent arts consultant, writer, and curator of cultural projects, Yuriko Lochan, Senior Artist and Painter, Rajiv Lochan, former Director of NGMA and Dr Ved Prakash Bharadwaj, Ved Prakash Bhardwaj, art writer, curator and editor-publisher of Art News India, Jyoti A Kathpalia, art critic, curator, associate professor, and creative writer, Kanchan Chander and Niladri Paul, senior artists were present along with family and friends.
Entangled Ecologies marks a significant new chapter in Ritu Kamath’s artistic practice, expanding her ongoing exploration of nature into immersive botanical landscapes that exist between observation, memory, and imagination. Her paintings are not depictions of specific places but living ecosystems where every vine, leaf, flower, and branch becomes part of an intricate visual language. Part cultivated garden and part untamed wilderness, these works celebrate nature as an interconnected web in which every element is sustained by another. In Kamath’s imagined worlds, the boundaries between body and landscape begin to dissolve—foliage unfurls like veins, tendrils echo organic pathways, and botanical forms become metaphors for the body’s hidden anatomies and its profound kinship with the natural world.

Rendered through thousands of meticulously drawn lines, Kamath’s monochromatic works possess an extraordinary meditative intensity. The absence of colour directs attention to the rhythm of repetition, the delicate architecture of foliage, and the slow, almost ritualistic process of mark-making. Every leaf is individually articulated and every tendril carefully traced, creating compositions that reward prolonged viewing. Rather than presenting a singular focal point, the paintings invite the eye to wander through dense networks of botanical forms, revealing new relationships and hidden details with every encounter. They resemble imagined botanical archives—part scientific illustration, part memory map—where biodiversity, migration, and ecological histories quietly converge.

Anoop Kamath is the curatorial advisor for this exhibition.