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A day off the clock with Shankie, the man behind the bar🍸
Earlier this month we spent a day with him exploring Delhi’s coolest spaces and the night that followed? Pure madness (the good kind).

today’s his birthday so everyone say HBD to him in the comments @shankie.dankie 🪩✨🍻

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𝗕𝗨𝗚𝗦! 𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 took the insect world as a point of inspiration. Praying mantises, dung beetles, moths and other oddly familiar creatures became a way into thinking about the many ways we exist alongside one another.

We treated the gallery as a space of possibility. The works spilled onto the floor, walls, sound and taste, even your sense of being perceived, all through a series of interventions around the body of work.

Apart from looking at the art, your feet touched grass, and when you looked up at the ceiling, you found clouds in the sky, making you fully present in the gallery viewing experience.

The Fresnel and Bug Eye lenses in the exhibition played with this act of looking. You brought them closer, changed the scale and saw how the creatures shifted. The closer you looked, the more strangely familiar they became!

Video credits: @mjofnone

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A neighbourhood spot in the truest sense. We went for coffee and a slow chat with their witty co-founder Abhishek. We ended up returning for an ear-numbing gig.

Read about all about @shackhq at the link in our bio to see what gives.

[Time Out Delhi, Time Out India, Shack HQ, Shack HQ Delhi, Delhi cafes, Delhi coffee shops, Delhi neighbourhood spots, live music Delhi, Delhi gigs, Delhi nightlife, Abhishek Shack HQ, things to do in Delhi]

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Got a chance to help out at BUGS! WE’RE ALL CONNECTED, ON VIEW TILL 11TH OCTOBER SUNDAYYY
curated by the best @paradise_tender at @shacocohq !!! 🐛🐞🪲 featuring 15 really amazing artists ⭐️

Amazed at how well everything was put together completely transforming the space into a whole new world @paradise_tender really thought of EVERYTHINGGGG right down to the tiny bugs placed around the gallery and the wonderfully painted ceiling with the coolest lenses installed around as well with the soundtrack putting it all together so perfectly. So happy to have witnessed this in person over the last few days 🤍🤍 🤍

Have met the cooooolesttttt people due to this show, so grateful 🥰🥰
Captured the most fun moments with @goproindia

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THE JOY OF TRYING 🪲💩

I made a little comic about a dung beetle and its wonderfully strange act of persistence.

Sometimes the ball only moves a little.
But it moved!! And that’s worth celebrating! 🥳

The Joy of Trying is part of BUGS! We’re All Connected, a group exhibition that looks at how we observe other species, assign meaning to their behaviour, and find patterns that remind us of ourselves. 🪲🐛🦋
The exhibition is on view 3rd–11th October, 10am–7pm at @shacocohq , Shahpur Jat, New Delhi, curated by @paradise_tender 🩷

Come see the show, support the artists!
Limited edition prints of The Joy of Trying are available at the exhibition. ✏️🪲

🎥 Dung beetle footage: @NarrowOutdoors + @NatGeoWilder on YouTube
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blessed and tired af!!! 🫠💕

Setting up for 𝗕𝗨𝗚𝗦! 𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 over the last 2.5 days has been a pretty good exercise in trusting the process.

All the bts was shot on @goproindia Mission 1 Pro & lemme tell you im a big fan!! I usually get so engrossed in making the work that i forget filming the process! Propping this comapct camera to make timelapses was sooo easy. 🤳

It starts with “what if we made our own compound eyes for people to look through the window?” thought at 4am and somehow ends with “okay, let’s find a local laser cutter and make it happen tomorrow.”

The original idea was to take over the room and turn it into an ecosystem of its own. Grass on the floor, warm yellow behind the artworks and a perfect blue sky with “bugs!” floating around as clouds. Then naughty girls like @sheuwuli come along with genius ideas like an entire ant-hill storage room, and suddenly the plan has evolved again. Labour intensive? Extremely. Worth it? Also extremely.

That’s been the best part of building this show. An open-ended starting point, fifteen very different artists, and a room that kept changing as more people brought their ideas into it. A bit like a kaleidoscopic view of the world that the works in the show also explore.

The night before opening, I briefly considered calling the whole thing off over a few last-minute hiccups. Naturally, we fixed them the next morning. Just in time.

Thank you to everyone who helped turn the vision into something we could actually walk into. From sourcing sand for the ant hill at the local park to cutting AstroTurf around the room’s jagged corners, every little thing found its way into the final picture.

The exhibit is best experienced in person. Come look closer through the fesnel lenses hanging on the wall, change your perspective, and let the ecosystem take over for a bit.

𝗕𝗨𝗚𝗦! 𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 is on view till 11th October, open daily from 10am to 7pm at @shacocohq in Shahpurjat, New Delhi.

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My artwork ‘Where Did the Ladybugs Go?’ is on display at @shacocohq, New Delhi, from 3rd to 11th October!

Available to purchase as a limited edition print of 20 copies (signed by me) as part of the group print exhibition, BUGS! We’re All Connected, curated by the v cool @paradise_tender @shreya.josh 🐞

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𝗕𝗨𝗚𝗦! 𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 is on view till 11th Oct!! 🪲

There is an anthropological curiosity to the show. We observe other species, assign meaning to their behaviour and find patterns that remind us of ourselves.

What’s exciting about the accessibility of @shacocohq is that it’s a space where art collectors, gallery regulars, neighbourhood families and anyone passing through the lanes of Shahpur Jat can experience the show together.

The show is on view daily, from 3rd - 11th October, 10am to 7pm at Shacoco in Shahpurjat, New Delhi.

Bring all your friends, acquire & support alive artists 🦋🐌🐞🐝🐜🐛🧚🏽‍♀️

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Last week was lil overwhelming, but in the best way. Seeing friends come by, meeting new people, talking about the work, explaining abt mine, and just having people around made the whole thing feel very real.

I’m really grateful to everyone who came, to everyone who wanted to come but couldn’t, and to everyone I got to meet through the exhibition. It was really lovely having so many people become a small part of this first experience

@shacocohq @varleen_05 who made it happen, have my heart 🫶

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I am pleased to invite you to 𝗕𝗨𝗚𝗦! 𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙, a group print exhibition bringing together the works of 15 visual artists from across India.

The exhibition uses the often-overlooked insect world as a kaleidoscopic lens through which we explore subjects including gender, identity, agency, love and social structures. Across the works, insects become both inspiration and metaphor, opening up different ways of thinking about our relationships with one another and the environments we inhabit.

Each artist has created an exclusive new work for the exhibition, unveiled publicly for the first time. The works interpret the theme through each artist’s own visual language and practice.

𝗕𝗨𝗚𝗦! 𝙒𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 will feature 15 original works, each available as a limited-edition of 20, signed and numbered prints.

3rd – 11th October 10am – 7pm
@shacocohq Shahpur Jat, New Delhi

Free entry, open to all. I hope to see you there! 🐛

Music Partner — @marshall
Captured on — @gopro

Love to the team — @ichchapichcha @sheuwuli @raiabhisheka ❤️

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6 Months, 6 Shows
ZOO 5 was the first show. For The Love Of Comics was the second show. Ashwitha curated comics by authors from around the country. It was also a success. We borrowed table for showcasing the books. They got their shelves to put more books. Ashish Das exhibited the third show. He is nearing sixty, but he has the enthusiasm of a teenager. He sold his artwork. He hadn’t painted in years. Now he is painting more. Abhishek Vidyarthi did the fourth show. He has a love and hate relationship with the city. His work showcased the river, the forests, farmhouses and the horse. Guests loved and grabbed his work. Leesha’s pop up was our fifth show. She was Shack’s first customer in 2022. Our 6th show is on.
Full piece--> https://bit.ly/6SHOWS or Click Link In The Bio

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My first show, and such a sweet little space to have it in.

‘Unfolding’ opened on Tuesday at @shacocohq !! And we have just 2 days left before it closes.

The show runs till this Sunday and is open from 10am to 7pm. Please visit if you’re around, I eagerly wait to see some of you. 🫶

Super happy with how the exhibition turned out. A big thank you to @raiabhisheka , for believing that art should be accessible to everyone, and should not be confined to fancy galleries and intimidating spaces, and for believing in bootstrappers and giving them a space to start
And to @varleen_05 , for curating the show and bringing everything together so beautifully, while somehow managing to do it all alongside her job and through being unwell. Really grateful 🤍

And of course, to everyone who has visited so far, spent time with the work, shared a kind word, or simply stopped by

Two more days. Come say hi. 🫶

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