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The Armory Show @thearmoryshow 2025 opens tomorrow and Parul Thacker’s @studioparulthacker body of work 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦-𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘬𝘺, 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 will be on view at our booth 407.

Referring to celestial studies of movements of planets and to meditative practices form the core of Thacker’s practice. Her work seeks to acknowledge the existence of ancient philosophies and classical Indian music alongside a technical vocabulary of algorithms, mathematical topology, and material molecularity—straddling registers of both ancient materials and contemporary practice, in ways that represent their rhizomatic circularity instead of a linear progression in time.

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Parul Thacker, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦-𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦: 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘬𝘺, 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 (30), Hand embroidered palimpsests in cotton / polyester filaments of multiple thread-counts on silk canvas, 19 x 14 in, 2021

[#ParulThacker, Experimenter, #TheArmoryShow #TheArmoryShow2025] taken in Javits Center by @studioparulthacker

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Mumbai-based visual artist Parul Thacker trained in textiles, and her practise has consistently shown a mastery over innovative stitches and surface textures which are expressed as sculptures and installations. In SURFACE we have had the privilege to debut a new work of the artist created specially for the exhibition, a set of twelve organza panels with embroidered drawings. Their striking images are diagrammatic representations of sound waves which Thacker captured over a two month residency last year in the Arctic.
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The work is presented in conversation with a sound piece by musician and composer @frankhorvatofficial
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This is the last week to view SURFACE — An Exhibition of Indian Embroideries and Surface Embellishment as Art. The exhibition remains on view through Sunday, the 23rd of February from 10 am to 8 pm at Anchal Niwas, Anoop Singh ki Haveli and Lakshmi Niwas around the renowned Stepwell Toorji ka Jhalra in the walled city of Jodhpur.
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@studioparulthacker @experimenterkol @priyankaraja @sutrakalafoundation @shonrandhawa @jdh.jodhpur @madeinmotherland
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Images credit — @anujarora789 by @studioparulthacker

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We will be showing works by Parul Thacker @studioparulthacker at India Art Fair 2025 @indiaartfair.

Referring to celestial studies of movements of planets and to meditative practices form the core of Thacker’s practice. Her work seeks to acknowledge the existence of ancient philosophies and classical Indian music alongside a technical vocabulary of algorithms, mathematical topology, and material molecularity—straddling registers of both ancient materials and contemporary practice, in ways that represent their rhizomatic circularity instead of a linear progression in time.

Experimenter at India Art Fair, 6 – 9 February, 2025
Booth C01 | NSIC Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi

Image: Parul Thacker, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭: 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘵𝘦, Himalayan smoky quartz mineral, Himalayan clear quartz minerals, jasper mineral, black and white threads, fire, camphor soot pigments, jute canvas, 108 x 72 x 11 in, 2025.

[Parul Thacker, Experimenter, India Art Fair, IAF 2025] taken in India Art Fair by @studioparulthacker

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- There was no motion in this inner world, All was a still and even infinity.
In her the Unseen, the Unknown waited his hour. - Sri Aurobindo. #Ending this year with memories of the Arctic Circle residency expedition at 82 degrees North sailing the archipelago of Spitsbergen. by @studioparulthacker

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#throwback

CLOSING CEREMONY

La cerimonia di chiusura eseguita dall'artista indiana Parul Thacker per celebrare la fine della mostra 'Per non perdere il filo. Karine N'guyen Van Tham – Parul Thacker' a cura di Daniela Ferretti, Evento Collaterale della 60. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia.

📷 Ilaria Zago

#FondazionedellAlberodOro #PalazzoVendraminGrimani #PerNonPerdereilFilo #BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere #finissage by @studioparulthacker

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« Nelle opere di Thacker incontriamo diverse metafore della realtà. L’oscura essenza della materia colora il suo lavoro, ricordandoci di radicarci nella fisicità del mondo. »

- Devdip Ganguli, docente presso il Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education a Pondicherry

📖 Estratto dal catalogo della mostra Evento Collaterale ‘Per non perdere il filo. Karine N’guyen Van Tham – Parul Thacker’
👉 Disponibile sul bookshop online della Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro e in biglietteria a Palazzo Vendramin Grimani

🌍 « Various metaphors of reality meet our eyes in the works of Thacker. The dark essence of matter colours her work, reminding us to ground ourselves in the physicality of the world. »

- Devdip Ganguli, Faculty Member at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Pondicherry

📖 Extract from Collateral Event catalogue ‘Per non perdere il filo. Karine N’guyen Van Tham – Parul Thacker’
👉 Available on Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro’s online bookshop and at the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani ticket office

📷 Andrea Avezzù
#FondazionedellAlberodOro #PalazzoVendraminGrimani #PerNonPerdereilFilo #BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere taken in Venice, Italy by @studioparulthacker

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🎨 Nello studio di Parul Thacker

Parul Thacker, artista indiana, trae ispirazione dalle sculture dei templi indiani, dalla cosmologia del Tantra e dalla fisica quantistica per creare opere d’arte che fungono da veri e propri portali di energia. Utilizzando una varietà di materiali come minerali, foglie d’oro e d’argento, fuliggine di cemphoor, fuoco, profumo, fili tecnici, metallo, bronzo e rame, Parul trasforma elementi naturali e tecnici in rappresentazioni contemporanee di antiche divinità indiane.

Nel suo lavoro, Thacker affronta temi come la disciplina del tantra, la coscienza, l’energia maschile e femminile, e studi metafisici che combinano simbolismi del tantra con elementi del polo artico, producendo disegni ricchi di significato e profondità.

Visita la mostra Evento Collaterale ‘Per non perdere il filo. Karine N’guyen Van Tham – Parul Thacker’ per apprezzare dal vivo le opere di Parul Thacker, dove tradizione e contemporaneità si fondono in un linguaggio unico.

🌍 In studio with Parul Thacker

Indian artist Parul Thacker draws inspiration from Indian temple sculptures, Tantra cosmology and quantum physics to create works of art that act as portals of energy. Using a variety of materials such as minerals, gold and silver leaf, cemphoor soot, fire, perfume, technical threads, metal, bronze and copper, Parul transforms natural and technical elements into contemporary representations of ancient Indian deities.

In her work, Thacker addresses themes such as the tantra, consciousness, male and female energy, and metaphysical studies that combine tantra symbolism with elements of the Arctic pole, producing designs rich in meaning and depth.

Visit Collateral Event ‘Per non perdere il filo. Karine N’guyen Van Tham - Parul Thacker’ to appreciate live the works of Parul Thacker where tradition and contemporaneity come together in a unique language.

Per non perdere il filo. Karine N’guyen Van Tham – Parul Thacker
Evento Collaterale della 60. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia
📍Palazzo Vendramin Grimani
📅 20.04 → 24.11.2024 taken in Venice, Italy by @studioparulthacker

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#adindia
#Komalsharma
#shaikhAyaz
#Image credit : Andrea Avezzu, Anil Rane #FondazionedellAlberodOro #PalazzoVendraminGrimani
#Venezia #Venice #PerNonPerdereilFilo
#curatedbyDanielaFerretti
#BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere
#curatedbyAdrianoPedrosa taken in Palazzo Vendramin, Venezia by @studioparulthacker

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THROWBACK 🔙

A marzo 2024, l’artista indiana Parul Thacker è stata invitata dalla Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro a Venezia per partecipare all’installazione delle sue opere a Palazzo Vendramin Grimani. Per l’occasione Thacker ha completato l’affumicatura delle opere sul pontile della porta d’acqua del palazzo. Nel suo lavoro, Thacker combina antiche tecniche tradizionali all’uso degli elementi naturali.

Segui una visita guidata e scopri di più sul lavoro di Parul Thacker. Le visite sono disponibili ogni sabato e domenica alle ore 11:00 e alle ore 15:30 (senza sovraprezzo).

🌍 In March 2024, Indian artist Parul Thacker was invited by Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro in Venice to participate in the installation of her works at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani. For the occasion, Thacker completed the smoking of the works on the palazzo’s water gate platform. In her work, Thacker combines ancient traditional techniques with the use of natural elements.

Follow a guided tour and learn more about Parul Thacker’s work. Tours are available each Saturday and Sunday at 11 am and 3:30 pm (no extra charge).

Per non perdere il filo. Karine N’guyen Van Tham – Parul Thacker
Evento Collaterale della 60. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia
📍Palazzo Vendramin Grimani
📅 20.04 → 24.11.2024

📷 Andrea Avezzù
#FondazionedellAlberodOro #PalazzoVendraminGrimani #Venezia #Venice #PerNonPerdereilFilo #BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere taken in Canal Grande by @studioparulthacker

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study notes from Life Divine : An evolution and revolution of our nature ; states of light, powers of spiritual life, vehicles of a spiritual existence

transformed by a state of being and a force of being superior to them, a power of Supermind

natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe

from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude.

omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation. —————————————————————————*#Image credit : “*detail* from Ugo Carmeni Photography 2024”. #FondazionedellAlberodOro #PalazzoVendraminGrimani
#Venezia #Venice #PerNonPerdereilFilo
#curatedbyDanielaFerretti
#BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere
#curatedbyAdrianoPedrosa taken in Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro by @studioparulthacker

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Boundless Finite

The Unseen with whom there can be no pragmatic relations, unseizable, featureless, unthinkable, undesignable by name, whose substance is the certitude of One Self, in whom world-existence
is stilled, who is all peace and bliss — that is the Self, that is what must be known.
— Mandukya Upanishad 1
In the eyes of Parul Thacker, all existence has an integral texture, composed of the warp of cosmic reality and the weft of the individual soul. The meeting point between the cosmos and the individual is the liminal moment that is reflected in her art, the extended duration
of an experience that transcends past, present, and future. . . . *Devdip Ganguli is a Faculty Member at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Pondicherry (India), where he offers undergraduate courses on Sri Aurobindo’s philosophical works. He is also Visiting Faculty for transcultural philosophy at École Normale Supérierure, Paris (France). He has a special interest in South Asian and East Asian art, and has curated the art works of Chinese artist-scholar Xu Fancheng for New York University Shanghai (China). . . . —————————————————————————#Text : Devdip Ganguli , March 2024. *#Image credit : “*detail* from Ugo Carmeni Photography 2024”. #FondazionedellAlberodOro #PalazzoVendraminGrimani
#Venezia #Venice #PerNonPerdereilFilo
#curatedbyDanielaFerretti
#BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere
#curatedbyAdrianoPedrosa by @studioparulthacker

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The Symbol Dawn
It was the hour before the Gods awake. Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge. Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable,
In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse The abysm of the unbodied Infinite;
A fathomless zero occupied the world.
With this verse begins Savitri, considered the most significant literary work of Sri Aurobindo, the renowned Indian philosopher whose writings guide the life and work of Parul Thacker. Over two decades, the artist has frequently returned to the ashram community based on his teachings, established in 1926 in Pondicherry — now Puducherry — in the south of peninsular India, and has attributed significant shifts in her artistic practice to these stays. She has also often turned to Savitri for inspiration, solace, and comfort. *#Mayank Mansingh Kaul March 2024. (Extract from the catalogue)
. Kaul is a New Delhi-based writer and independent curator, with a focus on post-colonial histories of textiles, design and fashion in India . . . . __________________________________________# Text : Mayank Mansingh Kaul, March 2024 ~#Image credit : Andrea Avezzù. #FondazionedellAlberodOro #PalazzoVendraminGrimani
#Venezia #Venice #PerNonPerdereilFilo
#curatedbyDanielaFerretti
#BiennaleArte2024 #StranieriOvunque #ForeignersEverywhere
#curatedbyAdrianoPedrosa taken in Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro by @studioparulthacker

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