Eikowa Contemporary presents Progressive Failure that brings together contemporary artists from Delhi whose works trace the city’s shifting landscapethrough the entanglement of architecture, remembering, and lived experience. Contributed by Ganga Narayanan, Harman Taneja, Ravi Morya, Sourabh Chhawry, Vikrant Kano, and Yashna Kaul, the exhibition draws upon archives, recorded histories, and imagined geographies to reflect on what remains when the structures that once held memory begin to give way. As old structures in and around Delhi are altered, erased, or absorbed into cyclesof urban expansion, the exhibition considers how the built environment reshapes bothpersonal and collective histories. Curated by Yash Vikram, Progressive Failure questionshow histories endure, transform, or disappear when the architecture that once anchoredthem slowly fades. 

Progressive Failure previews at Eikowa Contemporary, Gurgaon on Saturday, 18th July2026, from 5-8 PM.

GANGA NARAYANAN

Born in 1998 in Kannur, Kerala, Ganga Narayanan is a visual artist based between Delhi andVadodara. She holds an MVA in Painting (Mural) and a BVA in Painting from the Faculty ofFine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara (2023, 2021). Her practice isinformed by her engagement with art history, architecture, and conservation, exploring therelationship between memory, material, and the traces left behind by time. Narayanan’spractice reflects on the relationship between presence and absence, exploring howfragments, remnants, and material changes carry histories forward. 

Narayanan has received the K. Karunakaran Memorial Scholarship Award from KeralaLalithakala Akademi, Thrissur (2023) and the Padmashri Ramgopal Vijayvargiya Sammanfor Miniature Painting from Lalit Kala Akademi, Rajasthan and Kalavritt, Jaipur (2021). Shehas participated in several exhibitions, including Emergence: Pop Art at Alliance Française,Ahmedabad (2026); 52nd State Exhibition by Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kochi (2025); Artand Charlie with Raw Collaborative, Gandhinagar (2024); PRISTINE by Priyashri Art Gallery atKamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai (2022); and Kochi-Muziris Students Biennale (2021),among others.

Ganga Narayanan lives and works in between New Delhi and Vadodara.

HARMAN TANEJA

Born in 1994 in New Delhi, Harman Taneja holds a Bachelor of Architecture from theUniversity School of Architecture and Planning, New Delhi (2017). Her architectural trainingdeeply informs her artistic practice, through which she explores built environments asrepositories of personal and collective histories, fragmented memories, and the socio-political structures that shape everyday experiences of space. Working across sculpture andmaterial-based practices, Taneja examines the relationship between architecture, memory,and belonging. Her works consider spaces not merely as physical structures, but asemotional landscapes that preserve traces of human presence, transformation, and loss.

Taneja has participated in several group exhibitions across India and internationally. Recentexhibitions include Space Studio Alumni Show at Space Studio, Vadodara (2026); BengaluruArt Weekend, Bengaluru (2026); Walking Past at Bikaner House by Galleries Splash, NewDelhi (2025); Mind Echo at Chemould Colab in collaboration with Space Studio, Mumbai(2024); Seixart at the Agbara Series Auction, London (2023); Landscapes by MAGContemporary, Delhi (2023); Summer Somethings at Pulp Society, New Delhi (2023); andUnveiled Horizons at VHC, Pune (2023), among others. 

Taneja has also participated in several artist residencies, including Art For Change India,Mussoorie (2023); Space Studio, Vadodara (2022); and Round Them Oranges, Leh (2021).

Harman Taneja lives and works in New Delhi.

RAVI MORYA 

Ravi Morya was born in 1992, Gwalior, India. He pursued BFA in Painting, from RMT

University in 2015. Within Morya’s practice, repetition evolves into a conceptual frameworkfor understanding the human experience. It is through the repetition of motifs, gestures, andprocesses, that he unveils the overtones of our collective consciousness, offering glimpsesinto the nature of our being.

His works have been exhibited in several solo, and group shows in India. Additionally, Ravihas been a scholar at the Ministry of Culture on the Young Artist scholarship. He has alsobeen a part of shows like the Art Incept grant show, CIMA art gallery annual show, BirlaAcademy, Kolkata, and is a recipient of awards like the Prafulla Dhanukar Art, CIMA award,Madhya Pradesh State award, and the All India Art award from the state gallery of art,Hyderabad.

Ravi Morya lives and works in New Delhi, India.

SOURABH CHHAWRY 

Born in 2003 in New Delhi, Sourabh Chhawry is a visual artist based in India. He holds aBachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao Universityof Baroda, Vadodara (2026). Chhawry’s practice is rooted in close observations of everydaylife, exploring intimate moments, shared spaces, and subtle human interactions. Drawingfrom personal photographs and memories of family and friends, Chhawry’s paintings reflecton ordinary gestures, quiet states of presence, and the emotional textures of livedexperiences. 

Chhawry has participated in several group exhibitions, including Annual Degree Show at theFaculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, Vadodara (2026); Verve at Gallery Mold, Vadodara (2025);Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship Display at the Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts,MSU Baroda, Vadodara (2024, 2025); and Sangath (Batch Preview Exhibition) at theExhibition Hall, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda, Vadodara (2024). He has also participatedin a theatre workshop on “Mausoleum” led by Manan Gangopadhyay (2024), engaging withhistories of theatre, the commodification of art, and community-based practices.

Sourabh Chawwry currently lives and works in New Delhi, India.

VIKRANT KANO

Vikrant Kano was born in 1992 in Delhi, India. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts (2016)and Master of Fine Arts (2018) at the College of Art, New Delhi. His practice explores the“idea of home” by delving into his family history and archives. Through his work, Vikrantexamines the interconnected themes of home and homelessness, migration and landownership, physical and mental boundaries, memory and trauma, as well as fact and fiction.

In 2021, Vikrant held his first solo online exhibition, PRAF Discover Series-04: Lost InTranslation, supported by Prameya Art Foundation. He has also participated in numerousexhibitions across India and internationally. Notable exhibitions include Transitions andTransformations: The Constant Flux of Personal Structures curated by Geraldine Ondrizeckat Palazzo Bembo, Venice (2022), the online video art exhibition Diaphragm – MixingCultures at the Wrong Biennale (2022), and Call to Disorder: Experiments in Practice andResearch curated by Vidya Shivadas at the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa (2019). Vikrant’swork has also been showcased in Castelnuovo Fotografia at the Castle of Rocca Colonna,Rome (2019), and Proyector by Indus Art Collective in Madrid, Spain (2019).

Vikrant Kano lives and works in New Delhi, India.

YASHNA KAUL

Yashna Kaul was born in 1995 in New Delhi. She completed BFA in Photography andImaging from Tisch School of the Art, New York University in 2018. Through her practice,Kaul reflects on the nature of memory itself—how it is preserved, how it is altered, and how itis sometimes lost. Her work challenges us to consider the ways in which photography canboth reveal and obscure, offering a nuanced meditation on the role of images in theconstruction of our personal and collective identities.

Her work has been exhibited both in India and internationally. Her most recent exhibitionsinclude ‘Kyotographie’ in Kyoto, Japan, in 2024; the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa in 2023;the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan, Italy, in 2023; and the India Art Fair in 2023, amongothers. She was awarded the 2024 Japan Photo Award and received an honourable mentionfor the 2023 PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant New Generation Prize.

Yashna Kaul currently lives and works in between Mumbai and New Delhi, India.

YASH VIKRAM

Yash Vikram is an independent art curator and consultant based between New Delhi andVaranasi. With a background in engineering, Yash brings a fresh perspective tocontemporary art curation, emphasizing innovative ways of fostering new forms of meaningwithin the field. He is dedicated to exhibition-making practices that engage with pressingsocial, cultural, and political issues, aiming to amplify underrepresented and diverse voices.Through his work, Yash fosters dialogues that challenge and expand conventional narrativeswithin the art ecosystem.

Transitioning from engineering to the art industry, Yash founded Ether Project, a nomadic artplatform committed to supporting diverse artistic voices from South Asia, reflecting hisdedication to making contemporary art more accessible and inclusive, reaching beyondmajor urban centers to engage wider audiences. His experience includes working withinstitutions and galleries such as SA Ladakh, Akar Prakar, 1X1 Art Gallery, Vida HeydariContemporary, Tao Art Gallery, MAG Contemporary and others.

About Eikowa Contemporary

Eikowa Contemporary was founded by Vaishnavi Murali in 2024 as contemporary gallery inGurgaon, focused on promoting contemporary artists from the Indian subcontinent. With astrong focus on emerging and under-represented artists, practices that marry uniqueperspectives with complementary aesthetics, Eikowa Contemporary aspires to promotemuseum quality exhibitions while introducing new artistic practices working across newmediums, urgent concerns and contemporary narratives. Positioned in Gurgaon, the gallerycontributes to the cultural fabric of Gurgaon city through exhibitions, workshops, museumcollaborations and talks. 

Since its inception, the gallery has held multiple group exhibitions and solo exhibitions.Eikowa Contemporary has discovered emerging artists like Bhuwal Prasad, and showcasedunderexposed artists like G Subramanian, and Vinita Dasgupta, through marquee soloexhibitions. Our group exhibitions have featured artists with varying seniorities yet uniquevoices like, Bhuri Bai, Vaishali Oak, Mukesh Sah, Kumaresan Selvaraj, Liactuallee, HirenPatel, Tapas Biswas, Anikesa Dhing, among others. 

Vaishnavi herself has taken the unconventional path of fine art post a stellar career inluxury marketing and an MBA from the prestigious Indian School of Business. Vaishnavi hasbeen recognized as Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in 2017 for her contributions to Indian art. Ourparent gallery, Eikowa Art, was established in 2015, and has represented contemporaryartists and emerging masters over the past 11 years with 2 physical gallery spaces inGurgaon and Hyderabad, and a strong digital presence. Eikowa has also been a pioneer inglobal art tech, with our provenance chaining solution built on blockchain, this solutionallows art provenance to be tracked in an immutable manner across transactions and hasreceived global media attention.

Venue
A 29/5, DLF Phase 1, Gurgaon 122002

Artists
Ganga Narayanan, Harman Taneja, Ravi Morya, Sourabh Chhawry, Vikrant Kano, and Yashna Kaul, 

Exhibition Dates
July 18 – September 20, 2026

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Sunday | 11 AM – 7 PM

Website
https://contemporary.eikowa.com/

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Contact
vm@eikowa.com 

(Text and images courtesy of Eikowa Contemporary)