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Day 2 @untitledartfairs Houston @nareshkumarstudio
Please find us in the Nest Sector at booth N4.
The Long Way Home, a solo project by Naresh Kumar, exploring migration, mobility, conflict, and the shifting idea of homeland.
Drawing on Korean, American, and Indian histories, Kumar considers how war, technology, migration, and cultural exchange have shaped our interconnected world. His works bring together natural and locally sourced materials—including indigo, mica, marble dust, copper dust, and watercolour pencil—applied over vintage 1998 Yellow Pages directories. These materials become carriers of memory, communication, history, and disappearance.
Animals, particularly snakes, recur throughout the works as symbols of connectivity and shared existence. Without borders or nationality, they offer Kumar a way to think beyond divisions of geography, culture, and identity.
In one work, two skulls loosely evoke Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., reflecting on the universal experience of injustice and the continuing struggle for equality.
Through The Long Way Home, Kumar creates what he describes as “visual poems”—works that remain open to interpretation and invite viewers to bring their own histories and experiences to the encounter. The exhibition ultimately asks: What does home mean in a world defined by movement, migration, and conflict?
Long Way Home II (Gandhi & Kasturba), 2025-26
Indigo, watercolor pencil, mica powder, marble dust, copper dust and graphite on Mumbai Yellow Pages magazines in 9 panels, 98 x 66.5cm
For all information: [email protected]
Please find us in the Nest Sector at booth N4.
The Long Way Home, a solo project by Naresh Kumar, exploring migration, mobility, conflict, and the shifting idea of homeland.
Drawing on Korean, American, and Indian histories, Kumar considers how war, technology, migration, and cultural exchange have shaped our interconnected world. His works bring together natural and locally sourced materials—including indigo, mica, marble dust, copper dust, and watercolour pencil—applied over vintage 1998 Yellow Pages directories. These materials become carriers of memory, communication, history, and disappearance.
Animals, particularly snakes, recur throughout the works as symbols of connectivity and shared existence. Without borders or nationality, they offer Kumar a way to think beyond divisions of geography, culture, and identity.
In one work, two skulls loosely evoke Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., reflecting on the universal experience of injustice and the continuing struggle for equality.
Through The Long Way Home, Kumar creates what he describes as “visual poems”—works that remain open to interpretation and invite viewers to bring their own histories and experiences to the encounter. The exhibition ultimately asks: What does home mean in a world defined by movement, migration, and conflict?
Long Way Home II (Gandhi & Kasturba), 2025-26
Indigo, watercolor pencil, mica powder, marble dust, copper dust and graphite on Mumbai Yellow Pages magazines in 9 panels, 98 x 66.5cm
For all information: [email protected]
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