Red. Yellow. Blue. The shiny gleam of dried red chilli, the dusty halo of turmeric powder, the textured rustle of papyrus sheets. These are the colours and textures that once lived in our homes, spread across sun-baked terraces where grandmothers dried spices, or hidden in fathers’ studies where the crackle of paper became its own music. Walking into Chromatic Currents, Kumari Nahappan’s exhibition at Pristine Contemporary in New Delhi, you will find those fragments of memory rushing back.

Nahappan, a Singapore -based artist of Indian origin, has built a career turning the ordinary into the monumental. The exhibition, curated by John Tung, reveals how colour is not simply a pigment in her universe, but a force that binds together material, myth, and memory.

From kitchen spice to bronze

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