sahil arora

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

Diabolically late to post about @indiaartfair but I promise it’s worth it. Super proud of how these photographs turned out. To be fair, it’s easy to take good pictures when the subjects are so gorgeous and meaningful. Thank you to the artists and @methoddelhi for trusting me to capture their work <33

Excited to share a new feature in @elledecorindia Thanks @synapsequence @methodindia 💫

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 )

A special thank you from the bottom of our hearts to @indiaartfair for their first ever in-person visit to IMMERSE for our opening, celebrating our 5th year with a special walkthrough showcase, and a session with our Fellows on navigating the arts through the lens of a global Art Fair. Such interactions grow the arts ecosystem, expand the worldviews’ of our Fellows, and, in turn, nurture audiences towards art.

With the evocative title Grow, ASIA NOW's 2025 edition articulated a vision of art as fertile ground for transformation, dialogue and collective flourishing. Growth was not presented as a singular trajectory, but as a multiplicity of roots extending across borders and traditions, intertwining the local and the global, the ancestral and the contemporary We honour our collective of guest curators. Thanks to their vision and commitment, we are able to develop such an outstanding public programme each year, engaging with an increasingly diverse and growing audience and shaping an unrivalled experience at @monnaiedeparis during Artweek in Paris each October. Our immense gratitude goes to : John Tain, Curator of the Lahore Biennale; @mirrortravels Natasha Ginwala, Artistic Director of COLOMBOSCOPE, Curator of Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry; @natasha_ginwala Hajra Haider Karrar, Guest Curator of COLOMBOSCOPE Festival 2026; @hajrakarrar Anissa Touati, Researcher at Brown University, USA, Curator of the Biennale BCK in Greece; @anissatowati Arnaud Morand, Independent Curator, Head of Arts at Afalula; @arnaud__morand Eunice Tsang, Founder of Current Plansand Associate Curator at M+ museum; @eeunicee Sahil Arora, Founder of Method Art Space, India; @synapsequence Zohreh Deldadeh, Researcher and Curator, Poushresident 2024; @zohrehdeldadeh Victoire de Pourtales, Curator, Co-Founder 91530 Le Marais, Art & Farming. @victorydp

Step inside ARCOmadrid 2026 👉🏻 Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 From March 5–9, over 200 galleries gathered for the 45th edition of ARCOmadrid, reaffirming its role as one of the contemporary art market’s leading international platforms. This year’s central concept, ARCO2045: The Future, for Now, invited reflection on emerging artistic languages and possible futures of art. 🏛️ Alongside the General Programme, curated sections also highlighted emerging galleries and Latin American practices. Profiles | Latin American Art, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, reinforced the fair’s long-standing dialogue with the region. Within this section, artists from across Latin America were represented, including Brazilian artist Kelton Campos Fausto, presented by A Gentil Carioca. ARCOmadrid 2026 once again positioned Madrid as a vital meeting point for galleries, collectors, and institutions across Europe and Latin America. 🌍 ✦ Images courtesy of the galleries #ARCOmadrid #ARCOmadrid2026 #ContemporaryArt #ArtFair #MadridArt GlobalArtMarket RivkaArtAdvisory

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 in its right 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆? Site specific installation Curated by Sahil Arora At ARCO Madrid. The work explores the fragile boundary between construction and collapse. Using bricks, the most basic unit of architecture: I assemble a structure that appears both built and ruined at the same time. The chaotic stack suggests a house, a city, or the remains of one, where stability exists only as a temporary negotiation with gravity. For me, the brick carries the memory of shelter, belonging, and the promise of permanence. Yet it is also the material through which homes are demolished and cities are erased. By pushing the material to the edge of balance, the work reflects on how structures of safety can quickly transform into sites of vulnerability. The sculpture asks a simple but urgent question: When does a home stop being a home? Video credit: Indira Verma reads Home by Warsan Shire.

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

Home? Curated by Sahil Arora Method x ARCO Madrid Booth 90P13 @synapsequence @feriaarco @methodindia

At ARCOmadrid 2026, Spain’s leading international contemporary art fair, Method (@methodindia ) presents “HOME?”, curated by Sahil Arora (@synapsequence ), featuring works by Sajid Wajid Shaikh, Shamir Iqtidar, Ammama Malik, & Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri. Each artist approaches the idea of home from a different angle – Working with debris from destroyed homes, Sajid Wajid Shaikh @sajidwajidshaikh situates “HOME?” in its most literal form, as structure, ruin, and memory at once. Shamir Iqtidar @shamir_iqtidar presents intimate paintings of young people in Pakistan, capturing moments of closeness that rarely unfold freely in public. Through a recurring veiled figure, Ammama Malik @ammama.malik reflects on visibility, gender, and the ways domestic space can shape presence. Using salvaged lakhori bricks from demolished sites in Faizabad, Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri @alisyedpractice transforms fragments of architecture into material records of homes and neighbourhoods that no longer exist. Collectively, the works hold home as both shelter and site of tension. Even as privacy fractures and structures weaken, something remains through memory, intimacy, and the insistence on presence. ARCOmadrid 2026 (@feriaarco ) runs from 4–8 March in Madrid, Spain. #ACROMadrid #Method #SouthAsianArtists #ContemporaryArt #ArtFervour Image Credits: Cover Image: Shamir Iqtidar, ‘Untitled’, Oil on canvas. 1. Sajid Wajid Shaikh, ‘घर (Set of 6)’, Hand chiseling on found debris from destroyed homes. 2. Shamir Iqtidar, ‘Concord Fallacy’, Oil on canvas. 3. Ammama Malik, ‘Untitled’, Oil on canvas. 4. Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri, ‘Full Lakhori Brics (Set of 38)’, 17 Century Lakhori Bricks. All media courtesy of Method (@methodindia )

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 )