This Sunday, Sahil Arora, founder & curator of @methodindia / @methoddelhi kicks off his Beatpacking series with collected sounds from a 2 week stay in Istanbul in December 2025. All records are by Turkish artists and were collected from local record stores in Istanbul.
Beatpacking is driven by the urge to discover a city through its local music, not just the records themselves, but the histories, social conditions, and cultural environments that shaped them. Every record store visit becomes an exchange, hours spent with the store owners/staff discussing the artists, the moments in which the music was created, and their own personal relationships to the records they recommend. There’s also an element of chance to it, you rarely know exactly what you’re taking home until you finally put the record on yourself, but you rely on the recommendation of that local enthusiast. Through these encounters and discoveries, Beatpacking forms a growing archive of the diverse sounds that define each city it visits.
Outer sleeve image captured at Opus3a, Istanbul by @sciantarelli
Inner Sleeve image taken from a rooftop in Taksim at 6:30 am on Jan 1, 2026 capturing boats moving towards Karakoy for a pro-Palestinian procession, credit @synapsequence
In Points of Cont(act), Sehaj Malik attempts to construct a system in which the body is both instrument and particle. It is an active agent entering, testing, and reconfiguring the space it inhabits. The exhibition unfolds as a set of charged interactions between organism and architecture, gesture and surface, instruction and exhaustion.
At its core is To the Cosmos and Back in 29 Steps, an instruction-based durational work that operates as both score and diagram. Borrowing the language of user manuals, industrial protocols, and scientific diagrams, I wish to frame the gallery space as a chamber set-up, through which the body travels like a mass in motion. The work proposes a simple but disorienting premise - that the body, by moving, curves the space around it. Each step becomes an attempt to register that impact. It will mark force, friction, interference, and return.
Credits :
Artist : Sehaj Malik
Gallery : Method Delhi
Curators : Sahil Arora , Anica Mann
Videography : Yuvraj Chawla
Edit : Sarthak Chauhan
Track : Honor by Abhi Meer ( from Omerta EP )
Method at ARCO Madrid 2026
Booth 9OP13
Home?
Curated by Sahil Arora
Home is a paradox: the sanctuary we long for, yet a promise increasingly dismantled. War reduces houses to rubble, urbanisation erases neighbourhoods, and even where structures remain, privacy grows fragile.
At Method’s booth in the Opening section of ARCO Madrid, four artists reflect on home as a space that is porous, watched, and contested, yet still shaped by tenderness and memory.
At the centre, Sajid Wajid Shaikh’s site-specific installation reflects on displacement and the fragile social structures that hold communities together.
Through the cracks of the installation appears Ammama Malik’s veiled female figure, reflecting on the negotiation between visibility and concealment.
Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri’s sculptures, made from 17th-century lakhori bricks salvaged from demolished sites in Faizabad, act as material archives of monuments that no longer stand—a quiet resistance to cultural erasure.
At the entrance, Shamir Iqtidar’s intimate paintings of young people in Pakistan capture quiet moments of affection that cannot unfold freely in public, gesturing toward the comfort and safety home is meant to provide.
Together, the works assemble a fragile architecture of home: where walls erode, the gaze persists, and memory continues to hold its ground.
ARCO Madrid, Opening Section curated by Rafael Barber Cortell and Anissa Touati. @feriaarco
Method goes to Madrid. We’re delighted to be part of ARCO Madrid’s opening section curated by Anissa Touati and Rafa Barber Cortell.
As always, our booth presents a thoughtful curation rather than just a random selection of works.
Home? Curated by Sahil Arora
Home is a paradox; a promised sanctuary of safety and freedom, yet increasingly eroded by the forces that surround it. War reduces homes to rubble, urbanisation erases neighbourhoods and the histories they hold, and the pervasive gaze of surveillance follows us inside what was meant to be private. At Method’s booth for ARCO Madrid 2026, four artists trace this broken promise. Sajid Wajid Shaikh’s fractured concrete grill exposes vulnerability pushing through structures meant to be permanent; Shamir Iqtidar’s intimate paintings reveal affection surviving under the watch of prying eyes; Ammama Malik’s veiled figure occupies the unseen margins where women navigate constraint and defiance; and Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri’s sculptures, built from salvaged Lakhori bricks, carry the weight of homes and histories that refuse erasure. Together, they construct a vision of home as it truly is today: fragile, watched, contested, yet still a site where tenderness and memory persist.
Method x ARCO Madrid
Booth 90P13
Artists on view :
Ammama Malik
Sajid Wajid Shaikh
Shamir Iqtidar
Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri
Poster by Sajid (@46and2.co )
ᎫᎯᎯℕᎯℳᎯℤ 02.
☞ Woven Rollcaps.
On display @methodindia booth
For : @indiaartfair
Curated by @synapsequence
᯽A prayer mat woven meticulously from roll-cap firecrackers, highlighting the risks muslim minority faces in the simple act of worshipping resulting in unconstitutional persecution.
Thankyou @stutiikumar for all the hard work.
📸 @kan.corder
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats it's children.
- Nelson Mandela
𝑼𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑶𝑹𝑵
On display at @methodindia 's @indiaartfair
Boot no. E:10
Teakwood
Height: 3 ft 2 in
Breadth: 2 ft 7 in
Width: 1 ft.
Carved by Naushad Zaidi & team (Aurangabad)
📸 @kan.corder
Polishing : @khalil_studio01
Special thanks : @pradyum.tiwari
We’re excited to announce Method’s first curation in Paris - We Were Always Neighbours, curated by Sahil Arora (Curator & Founder, Method) for Asia Now Paris 2025 at the Monnaie de Paris from 21 - 26 Oct.
The project brings together artists from India and Pakistan in a shared corridor of gestures, urgencies, and expression. It resists the idea that identity is confined by borders, tracing instead the quiet, persistent connections that have always existed between us.
Through painting, sculpture, and site specific installations, We Were Always Neighbours transforms corridors and courtyards into living spaces of reflection and dialogue.
Participating artists:
1. Ammama Malik (Pakistan)
2. Darshika Singh (India)
3. Fatima Kaleem Khan (Pakistan)
4. Gargi Chandola (India)
5. Jibran Shahid (Pakistan)
6. Hasanali Kadiwala
7. Kunel Gaur (India)
8. Mohd. Intiyaz (India)
9. Sajid Wajid Shaikh (India)
10. Sehaj Malik (India)
11. Shamir Iqtidar (Pakistan)
12. Shivangi Kalra (India)
13. Tarini Sethi (India) (via Rajiv Menon Contemporary)
14. Tazeen Fatima (Pakistan) (via Art Manzil)
15. Viraj Khanna (India) (via Tao Art Gallery)
Poster designed by Sajid Wajid Shaikh.
Fresh Produce, featuring over 50 artists, curated by @anicamann is currently on view at Method Delhi. Underground, D-59, Defence Colony, New Delhi. We're open everyday from noon to 8pm, except on Mondays. Rsvp to the exhibition, link in bio. (It's free to attend). Get some details in this feature by @deepalidhingra05 for @the_hindu
(Post-Future-Era)™ from @indiaartfair 2025 (w/ @methodindia , Booth F05)• Acrylic on Canvas, silkscreen, acrylic paint, wood, and aluminium with metal steel bolts.
“Kunel Gaur’s latest works are a sleek, postmodernist cocktail—equal parts dystopian design critique, material fetish, and future nostalgia. They come at you like a high-end ad campaign but linger like a whispered warning: What if the very things designed to attract us are quietly shaping our desires?
With a deep understanding and love for branding, Gaur thoughtfully deconstructs the tools he knows well. Instead of discarding packaging, he preserves and reimagines it, creating glossy works that reveal deeper layers over time, like a familiar song unveiling hidden lyrics. His art critiques corporate aesthetics, questioning whether our attraction is genuine or conditioned.
Gaur also envisions a future shaped by the evolution of marketing, offering a fresh perspective beyond tech’s idealized utopia. His aluminum-framed,layered bricolage pieces blur the line between industrial minimalism and high-end art, encouraging us to rediscover a more mindful, authentic connection with design.” - Sahil Arora (@synapsequence ), Curator.
DM @methodindia for enquiries.
