Salt Lines
- July 3 – August 9, 2026
- Jaipur Centre for Art, City Palace, City Palace, Jaipur
- Organised by @jaipurcentreforart
About this event
Salt Lines by the artistic duo, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), arrived at The Jaipur Center for Art last week.
The Inland Customs Line, a 4,000 km long border, of which 2,500 km was a planted ‘hedge’, ran across the subcontinent, enforcing the British monopoly on salt. It was eventually abandoned after the British seized control of Sambhar Salt Lake in 1879. Presented in a city close to Sambhar Lake, the exhibition brings the colonial border’s largely forgotten story back to a historically significant landscape.
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The Sambhar Salt Lake informs the exhibition’s central video work, The Hedge of Halomancy, adding another layer of resonance to the exhibition. Mayalee, the courtesan protagonist of the work, might have even wandered these very halls in the past. Salt Lines traverses textile, video, and photography, at the threshold of historical records and speculative enquiry, reflecting on the division between those who viewed nature as a resource to be extr
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“We’re excited to announce that Salt Lines, by artist duo Hylozoic/Desires’ (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), will open at Jaipur Centre for Art on July 3rd until August 9th 2026. Touring from London’s Somerset…” Read all
We’re excited to announce that Salt Lines, by artist duo Hylozoic/Desires’ (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), will open at Jaipur Centre for Art on July 3rd until August 9th 2026. Touring from London’s Somerset House in London, once the British Empire’s tax office, and Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, which hosted the Empire’s economic botany collection, Salt Lines accumulates another uncanny resonance in Jaipur: Mayalee, the courtesan protagonist of the exhibition’s central video work, The Hedge of Halomancy, was from Sambhar and might even have wandered these very halls in the past. Then as now, sitar and bansuri - alongside the occasional stray note of a colonial brass instrument - would have filled the air. Salt Lines traverses textile, video, and photography at the threshold of historical records and speculative imaginings to excavate and penetrate the porosity of ‘The Great Hedge of India’. It offers a reflection on the division between those that viewed nature as a re
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