Priyanka Thaker

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Pradeep Kambathalli

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Pradeep is an expressive artist whose style is inspired by absurdity, a phenomenon, he regards as, through which he can render and explain his solitude within the complex layers of existence. Inspired by literature of magical realism, his graphic and intuitively juxtaposed images create a unique narrative which entices people to believe in the presence of a narrator. Pradeep’s artwork at Abhivyakti is about understanding the nature of human interaction. He has tried to evoke a sense of inherent qualities which are there in all of us and has tried to juxtapose them with those qualities which have slipped through…

Ramneek

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Jagrut Raval

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Jagrut Raval is an artist, designer and educator. His interdisciplinary art practice spans diverse mediums in various scales presented in the form of installations, photographic printing techniques, videos, drawings, and appropriation of mass-produced and found items. His works are inquiries about the notion of Time as experience and its relationship to the human condition. Inspired by the idea that anything put on a pedestal seems worthy of attention, Jagrut brings us ‘The Plinth’. As the name suggests, he will be installing a plinth, tucked away in a corner at the Knowledge consortium which shall slowly evolve into an anti-monument. With…

Jyotik Bhachech

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Jyotik is a psychiatrist by profession but pursues photography out of his passion for it. For the past seven years, he has been taking pictures of streets and people that capture the spirit of Ahmedabad. His works have been recognized by India Film Project, SNAP, Ahmedabad and numerous other organizations. He is also a Drishti trophy recipient of 2018. For Abhivyakti, Jyotik brings to you Bollywood in Auto. It is a visual journey of movie posters in an auto rickshaw and street life around. Most auto rickshaws, across the country, are decorated with Bollywood posters in different poses. This photo…

Neha Lavingya

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Neha Lavingia has obtained a Diploma in Painting at the C.N. College of Fine Arts, Ahmedabad, and a post-diploma in Print Making at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara. She has held solo shows of her work in Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad, and has participated in group shows in India and France. Neha does incredibly intricate drawings on a scale which forces the viewer to get very close to the image to make sense of it. From a distance, they seem like a pattern, on closer inspection, they are scenes of nature. For Abhivyakti Edition 3, Neha will…

Avni Sethi

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Avni is an interdisciplinary practitioner with her primary concern lying between culture, memory, space, and the body. She has been trained in multiple dance idioms, and her performances are largely inspired by syncretic faith, traditions and sites of contested narratives. She has conceptualized and designed the Conflictorium, a museum of conflict which acts as a home to diverse critical explorations on conflict transformation and art practice. For the festival, Avni has compiled a Book of Essays about love seen through the lens of the Conflictorium. The book will be published by Abhivyakti and will be situated at the entrance so…

Vineeta Oswal and Manoj Pilli

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While their paths were different, Vineeta and Manoj connected over their love for glass and sculpting. They met at NID while pursuing their post-graduation in ceramics and glass design where they came up with the idea of ‘Studio Glassic’, their co-founded company which works with hand-made sculptures and glass works. They even got an opportunity to display their work at Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa in December 2019. Following this year’s visual arts theme of ‘love’, Vineeta and Manoj have brought a collection of miniature sculptures made up of metal and glass. Now, the identity of these minions is a…

Al-Qawi Tazal Nanavati and Pramila Choudhary

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Al Qawi Tazal Nanavati is an astounding artist whose artworks reflect the essence and importance of meditation, prayer and Islamic practices that have had a major influence on her life. She completed her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Accompanying Al-Qawi in this project is Pramila Choudhary, a re-entrant to the stage of Abhivyakti and sustainable textile & fashion designer, textile artist and designer educator who graduated from the National Institute of Design. These two artists bonded over their similar tragedies of losing a loved one. And ignited by this bond and mutual…

Tarang

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Belonging to a family of artists, Tarang’s parents preferred a non-artistic career for him. But art being in his blood, he had to pursue his passion for drawing and designing. He did his graduation in interior design from CEPT. Tarang is also a skilful sculptor who dabbles with various mediums like aluminium casting, metal, fabric, wood, and even kinetic sculptures. Tarang is very fascinated by the art form of Ta’zieh and the grand paper castles that rally on the celebration of Muharram. Incorporating this unique style with his sculpting techniques, Tarang has augmented an entire city at Abhivyakti.

Mansi Shah

Artist

Mansi Shah is an architect-urban designer, who works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Planning at CEPT University. With teaching, she works on her independent research projects on different subjects under ‘Ahmedabad Mapping Project’, ‘City Water Walks’ and ‘Pocket- garden’. She has a keen interest in pedagogy and research related to environmental issues and uses teaching and art as a way to communicate and further her causes. ‘Feral city’ is an outcome of her interest and the project makes visible the fragile and stressed landscape of our cities and mainly that which affects biodiversity. With a series…

Siddhartha S.

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Having practised dentistry for a year, Siddhartha knew that this wasn’t his calling. A man who learnt to paint before writing craves a career which includes creativity and imagination. Hence, Siddhartha left dentistry and went to CEPT, where he did his master’s in art design communication. He is now a professional painter who creates incredible pieces with acrylics, graphite and charcoal. Contemplating the idea of how speech has lost its freedom in today’s world, Siddhartha has brought a painting rightfully titled ‘Hush’. Hush is a gigantic installation of 60×6 feet which includes drawings, as well as texts from ancient literature…

Mitali Dhruva

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Mitali has two sides to her artistic career. On the one hand, she is a recent graduate from CEPT University where she did her Bachelor’s in Interior Designing, on the other, she is a graceful Kathak dancer who has been learning the dance form for 15 years at Kadamb, Centre for Dance. She has been a part of Kadmab’s performing unit for the past nine years. For her equally divided love for the two art forms, she came to Abhivyakti with the idea to club both these art forms and created a unique presentation. Now, what you will witness is…

Amithabh Kumar, Antra Khurana, Sanket Pethkar, Rai & Pramita

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Created by an Ensemble of 5 diverse artists, this project is a 60-page silent comic book that will be made public through creative distribution strategies across Ahmedabad. Introducing the five contributors who made this book, Pramita is a versatile artist who dabbles in music, theatre and drawing; Rai explores the fields of comics, play cultures, world-building and media forms; Sanket Pethkar is a Mumbai-based visual artist who is the recipient of the first Jarul Picture Book Award, for his work The Night Monster; Antra Khurana is a colour enthusiast who savours loud, bright colours; and last but not least, Amitabh…

Pranay Dutta

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Pranay is a recent graduate from the Baroda School of Arts whose primary mode of art is videography. He is currently exploring the possibilities of mapping videos onto found objects. For Abhivyakti, Pranay has brought his newest production, titled ‘The Volatile’ which is a series of 4 channel videos that primarily envision a city during an apocalypse. The city taken here as the subject is overwhelmed by floods and has ceased to be functional. Disregard for the serenity that once was, has now unshackled the forces of nature and caused the harbour wave to take control. One may say that…

Prayas Abhinav

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Prayas is an artist, teacher and entrepreneur whose primary medium of creativity is words. He did his graduation in experimental media arts from the Srishti School of Art. He has been professionally active for the past 10+ years, and at present, he is working on a game-designing start-up called Nonserious Games. Worried by the elitism of poetry and people’s scepticism of their own ability to write one, Prayas has brought an exciting game which will bring out the poet within the players. With this game being played for the first time here, at Abhivyakti, Prayas will democratise poetry.

Jinal Patel

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Jinal is a sculptor working across varied materials. Her studio-based practice generates works which are incredibly delicate and personal. In contrast, her site-specific work and residency projects bring out a whole new dimension to her practice — most of her works done out of the studio deal with environmental degradation. For Abhivyakti, she has brought an installation which is participatory and underlines how we all participate in the degradation of our surroundings and instead of looking outwards, we need to become aware as individuals looking inwards for solutions.

Neha Suthar

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Neha has done her Diploma from CN Fine Arts and Master’s from M.S. University in 2002. In the span of her professional career, she has exhibited her work in Gujarat, Delhi, and Mumbai and participated in various group shows across the country. She has also received an award from the Gujarat Lalit Kala. Neha’s works evoke a dark feeling in the mind of its viewer. With a commendable control over her mediums of ink, charcoal and acrylic, her paintings can explain the multi-faced emotions of a human with just black and white. For Abhivyakti, she has brought some of her…

Sarvesh Singh & Alisha Raman

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Sarvesh and Alisha are an architect duo who met while pursuing their graduation from Birla Institute of Technology. They run their own architect company called atpX, an anti-disciplinary atelier which operates in the white spaces between architecture, science and innovation, research and application, and digital technology and craft. For Abhivyakti, they have created a computationally designed pavilion made up of suspended bamboo parts where the different parts are cut such that they create a particular note when clashed. Not only is it a spectacle to watch, but it will also augment a soothing ambience for whoever inhabits the installation.

Shad Lityani

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Shad has a varied practice, painting being the primary one. She did her masters in arts from M.L.B. College, Bhopal and was a resident artist at Kanoria Centre for Arts. She has been making portraits of human torsos, inspired either by her imagination or the people she observes around her. Most of them being women the paintings are extremely provocative without having a hint of the sexual. For Abhivyakti, Shad has brought about 30 such portraits which are interactive and set such as a cluster, group or family.

Ujjval Gajjar

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Born and brought up in a family where both of his parents were sculptors, Ujjval started learning art at a very young age while observing his parents’ work. He received his Master’s in Sculpting from M.S. University and was a resident artist at Kanoria Centre for Arts. He has successfully executed public installation projects for resorts, temples and the state government. A skilful charcoal and chalk artist as well, Ujjval likes to convert his sketches into physical form. For Abhivyakti, he has mutated two of his abstract sketches into real-life sculptures.

Avani Tanya

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Avani is an interdisciplinary artist working with images, text, found objects and sculpture. Guided by an interest in themes of urban life, the nature of memory and forms of storytelling, her practice primarily involves research, collecting, and documentation. She has an MA in Integrated Design from the University of Arts Bremen, Germany. From 2017-2018 she was an artist in residence at the South Asian Gallery in the V&A Museum and the Delfina Foundation in London. She currently lives and works in Goa, India. Her installation at Abhivyakti is a photographic response to the curatorial theme of ‘Love”. The series is…

Debarun Dutta

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Debarun is a documentary filmmaker and social activist. He makes films with non-profit organisations on a range of issues. He has been heading Drishti, a development communication organisation which uses communication and the arts to further social development, for a few years and this is his first attempt at a video installation. Debarun is a filmmaker in his own right. For Abhivyakti, he has brought us a multi-channel installation, compiled from the archives of Drishti, which explores concerns relating to the displacement of gender and caste.

Kavya Oza

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Kavya is a recent graduate from M.S. University where she did her post-graduation in printmaking. She has interned under Jyoti Bhatt, a well-renowned artist and photographer. Photography for her is an act of appreciating ‘the moment’. This ready-to-hand medium helps her to capture something in its rawest form that is exact to the subject. The work that she has put up is titled ‘Word of her closet & Absence of her identity’ which includes more than 75 small, hand-painted photographs that inquire about the position of females in our society. By focusing on female gestures and their traditional outfits, the…

Aneri Nihalani

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Though primarily a photographer- a photojournalist by heart, documentation is where Aneri’s core lies – for the truth of time, space, culture and people it records and its archival value. After completing her Master’s degree in Development Communication and working for a few well-known organisations, she is now a self-employed professional working with print media, films and digital media. For her love of documentation, Aneri brings you her newest work, titled ‘Romance in Gujarati Cinema through BTS’ which will look into the dramatic and romantic genres of the cinema through the perspective of people who make it.

Shahnawaz Siddiqui

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Shahnawaz has had no formal education as an artist, but from a young age, he has been fascinated towards photography. So, out of his passion for the art form, he started taking up photography as his profession. While he is skilled with sketching, Shahnawaz prefers working with collages. He started practising this medium in 2016 as an experiment which he fell in love with. Shahnawaz’s collages are elegant, yet enigmatic through which he tries to project his individuality. They might not convey a social message, but will for sure, reflect the creative potential of collage-making.

Sagar Joshi

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A Mumbai-based artist, Sagar is a talented painter and sculptor whose style is very enthusiastic. He did his graduation from Kala Vidya Sankul Polytechnic in painting and paved his way to Ahmedabad, where he has been working at Anand Niketan School for the last 4 years. Alongside his passion for painting, Sagar also dabbles with sculpting. And for Abhivyakti, he has brought his series of very playful sculptures called ‘Circus’. The sculptures resemble vibrant and enthusiastic characters that you might find at a circus. While Saloni’s work refers to the harsh reality of the world, Sagar’s Circus creatures reek of…

Jwalant Mahadevwala

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Jwalant Mahadevwala is an architect and designer who did his Masters in Urban Designing with a specialisation in Parametric Design from AA School of Architecture, London. From a young age, Jwalant was fascinated by the idea of creation, something he used to ponder upon while watching his father work, who is also an architect. He continually keeps experimenting with new materials and forms and tries to come up with new methods. For Abhivyakti, Jwalant will lay a stupendous installation based on algorithms. He has been using this technique for quite some time and is revered for its visual flow and…

Dipal Sisodia

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Dipal is a sculptor who is studying at the CN School of Arts. Her primary medium of exploration is terracotta. She has a sense of humour and the ability to capture everyday emotions and interactions with incredible subtlety. For Abhivyakti, Dipal has attempted an installation, unparalleled in its magnitude compared with her previous works. An augmented cityscape of sand filled with activities and interactions she has only done as individual sculptures in isolation. The intricate details of the city reflect Dipal’s perception and connection with the city and her surroundings.

Anuj Anjaria & Siddhartha Kararwal

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Anuj and Siddhartha are prolific sculptors who extensively use kinetic architecture in making their artwork. Anuj did his graduation in interior design from CEPT and exclusively works with kinetic structures. Alongside, he is pursuing to hone his skills in playing santoor, which is an adjacent field of his passion. Siddhartha is a conceptual artist whose works are a cumulative account of his existence. His sculptures have been put on display at major platforms like the India Art Fair, Yerba Beuna Centre for Arts, San Francisco and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. For Abhivyakti, these two artists have collaborated…

Sadhu Barde

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Ajinkya is an exceptional sculptor who did his post-graduation in sculpting from the M.S. University of Baroda. He is an intuitive artist whose artworks, made of metal, ceramic and even cardboard, are surreal and elegant, which often reflect upon social scenarios. He experiments with different mediums and always tries to bring something new to his art. For Abhivyakti, he has put up some of his newest sculptures that explore the tumultuous and exciting phenomenon that we call life. Representing one’s journey through life’s ups and downs, Sadhu’s sculptures document the essence of living.

Komal Mistri

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Komal Mistri is a skilled sculptor who is currently a resident artist at Kanoria Centre for Arts. She experiments with various materials like wood dust, charcoal and cow dung to make her sculptures that often symbolise the power of memories and one’s relation with his/her surroundings. For the festival, she proposes to create a totem, an obelisk, and a tower made up of small cabinets. Each cabinet will hold some memories, objects, drawings or sculptures. A mind palace built over time, of experiences, stored in a manner which is extremely personal but reflects upon the time and space they come…

Anurag Mitra

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Anurag is a practising visual artist from Tripura, where he received his Bachelor’s in Visual Arts from Govt. College of Art and Craft. He is currently working at a studio in Vadodara while exploring the domain of gallery practice and freelancing. His artworks concentrate on nature and surroundings. Scavenging new mediums and materials is his passion which always helps in his creations. For Abhivyakti, rather than a pre-painted piece, Anurag will be creating his project during the festival which is titled ‘Pose to Expose’. By creating multiple chalk outlines of himself (similar to those on a dead body), he will…

Roshan Chhabria

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Roshan is an exceptional painter who received his Master’s in Visual Arts in Painting with a gold medal from the M.S. University, Baroda. Some of his most famous works fall in the series titled ‘Ideal Boy’ which Ryan Holmberg, an art and comics historian, described as a “Dada-inflicted parody of Indian consumerism”. Roshan’s artworks capture the mundane conundrums of a middle-class life, which he presumes as an aspirational whirlpool that an entire section is stuck, it does not allow anyone to escape, instead is forced to keep pace with the quickening revolutions of existence or get shattered. And for Abhivyakti,…

Digvijay Singh (Dilda White)

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Digvijay is a celebrated fashion designer who had his initial training in painting at the Baroda School of Arts which remains his passion. His mesmerising watercolour paintings capture the subtlety of floral life as well as the serenading stillness of our cityscape. He has had a particular fascination with carnivorous flowers which he wants to express through this festival. What he has brought to you is a massive watercolour painting which augments an entire forest of carnivorous flowers.

Saloni Lunia

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Saloni is a young and burgeoning artist who is pursuing her Bachelor’s in Design in Interior Design from Navrachana University, Vadodara. She dabbles with multiple mediums, including graphic designing and set designing, with a motive to convey the ecological and sustainability problems of society. For Abhivyakti, Saloni has brought an installation which looks at the nature of all-consuming chemical effluents. The artwork is made up of mixed mediums like drawings layered with photographs and a tinge of pink shades, which symbolises the ecological effect of the chemicals. To her, the concept of industrial waste is like cotton candy, seductive, but…

Ankur Yadav

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Ankur is a recently graduated artist from M.S. University where he procured his post-graduation degree from the painting department. In the course of his artistic endeavour, Ankur’s portfolio includes diverse projects and concepts, all of which communicate his philosophy and criticism of society. His works have innate barrenness with their melancholic colour tones, but they showcase complexity on close inspection. He perceives reality as an augmented diorama of our knowledge which prohibits us from seeing alternative approaches or possibilities to life. And for his installation at Abhivyakti, he has conjured this augmented diorama and made it palpable for the audience…

Krunal Gohil

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While some people are drawn towards wildlife to enhance their photography, Krunal was motivated to pick up a camera to document his love and fascination for wildlife. Since childhood, the wildlife and domestic animals that surrounded him at his birthplace (Anghad) have been his most profound passion and driving force. This connection with fauna formed his foundational perspective towards photography and art in general and encapsulated the essence of what he tries to convey through his images. He completed his Bachelor in Visual Arts from CVM College of Fine Arts in Vallabh Vidhyanagar. He paved his way to Baroda for…

Sabyasachi Bhattacharjee

Artist

Sabyasachi Bhattacharjee is an image-maker and a storyteller who documents the chaos in his surroundings with different mediums, like drawing, photography or a conversation, looking for the pattern in them. He was born and brought up in Tripura where he acquired a Bachelor’s in Visual Arts from Govt. College of Arts and Crafts. He paved his way to Baroda for his post-graduation, which he did at M.S. University. His distinct style includes absurdly juxtaposing images which are often sourced from a collage of different photos to represent entirely new contexts that usually have a socio-political narrative. And for Abhivyakti, he…

Hiral Bhagat

Artist

Starting her professional career as a graphic designer in Ahmedabad and Mumbai, Hiral is a graduate from the C.N. College of Fine Arts with a five years diploma in Applied Arts. For her love of calligraphy, she learned the art form under the mentorship of Achyut Palav in Mumbai. Her works have been invited for display at significant festivals and exhibitions like GLF, Kala Ghoda Art Festival, and 6th Annual International Calligraphy Exhibition – San Francisco. For her installation at Abhivyakti, Hiral has dangled long scrolls which are embellished with her distinct style of calligraphy using texts from Avani Sethi’s…

Suvani Suri

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Suvani is a Delhi-based artist who has been a component of several trans-disciplinary practices, alternating between the roles of an artist, assembler, designer, researcher, sound producer and educator. She is preoccupied with the diverse peculiarities of the technological and sociopolitical processes that listening is embedded in, and the spectral qualities of sound that reveal certain slippages and gaps. The idea of revolutionary sounds is what Suvani is looking to explore. Revolution refers to something which causes a significant change in the social order. Revolutions could be social, economic or technological. Accompanied by her friend Shiraz Iqbal, Suvani wants to explore…

Shyamal Shodhan

Artist

Shyamal Shodhan is a writer who has been writing for 20 years. He has had numerous poems and fiction stories published. He is an avid fan of cinema which uses his art to preach love. For Abhivyakti, he is turning himself into his artwork. Over a finite span of the festival, Shyamal will be taking refuge at the venue, turning a little space designated under the banyan tree into his house. You might find him there with just a table, chair and tent. By becoming part of the venue, he is turning the festival into his muse. If he feels…

Labdhi Shah

Artist

Labdhi Shah is a self-taught artist and an art therapist. Labdhi believes that art is one of the most powerful mediums to lift humankind and plays her part in this noble virtue by healing children and adults suffering from various medical conditions with the help of art therapy. Hers is a participatory piece, in which she plays the role of instigator. Labdhi will sit beneath the famous banyan tree at the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, along with a bunch of printed postcards and writing material. You can take a postcard and write a letter to your loved one. Beside the…

Sukrit Sen

Artist

Sukrit is an architect by profession and a musician by passion. He is currently pursuing his Master’s in heritage management from Ahmedabad University and has been in the field of Indian classical music for the last two decades. His interest primarily lies in linking the tangible and the intangible heritage and using it as a tool to reach out to its stakeholders. Sukrit is also affiliated with an organisation called The Water Museum, where he uses water as a medium to create music. For Abhivyakti, he is going to use his works created with the Water Museum to shine a…