Current Exhibition
a wall made of holes | Amiya Ranjan Ojha
Opens January 9th
The exhibition continues until February 15th, 2025 | Extended gallery hours: 10:30 am to 8 p.m. until 12th January, 2025
Artworks
Amiya Ranjan Ojha
Amiya Ranjan Ojha (b.1998, Mogalpatana, Odisha) is a printmaker with a masters in printmaking from MSU, Baroda (2024). His work has been exhibited in the Students’ Biennale of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018, 2021). In 2023 he won the Odisha State Lalit Kala Academy Award for his work, Leaving, non-Living. In the same year, he was awarded the all India Gold Grant by Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation for his work, Midnight.
Ojha’s practice centres around the lived experience of migration, displacement, and belonging. He comes from a family of woodworkers with his father being a carpenter and his grandfather, a dollmaker. His woodblock prints express a special affinity for and keen grasp of the medium. The printmaker has a natural understanding of the material and his inherited craft is evident in the fine lines, texture, and depth he establishes in his work.
About the space
Fulcrum is a space where interdisciplinary dialogues on culture, politics, history, film and art emerge through exhibits, screenings, writings, and learning. The space serves as a platform for audiences and practitioners to engage in open dialogue and aims to contribute to the ecosystem of cultural practice. Fulcrum strives to participate in building bridges across independent cultural spaces forming a collaborative environment for nurturing a thriving arts community. Founded by Ayesha Aggarwal in 2025, the space is located in the two-hundred year-old Great Western Buildings in Kala Ghoda, Mumbai. Fulcrum’s team includes Bandhu Prasad, Shubham Roy Choudhury, Bincy Shahitha Swalih, Sandeep Sonwane and Adarsh Bhalerao with support from Prabhakar Pachpute and Lakshmi Sankaran.
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How to get there
116 / 23 Great Western Buildings, Chamber of Commerce Street, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001.
Fulcrum is located in the back quarter of Great Western Buildings, the entrance to this portion of the building complex is on the Chamber of Commerce Street, diagonally opposite Zen Cafe. We're on the first floor, look out for our lit signage!
History
Fulcrum was an independent liberal monthly magazine published in Bombay from July 1975 to August 1976 by journalist Yogi Aggarwal, who worked with and contributed to such mainstream news outlets as The Times of India, The Indian Express and Agence-France Presse during his 50-year-career. Reflecting the cultural and political milieu of 1970s India, the magazine featured incisive and challenging longform journalism during a fraught time for press freedom—the Emergency Years (1975-1977). Fulcrum’s 13 editions covered eclectic and wide-ranging subjects that addressed the pressing political, economic, cultural, and environmental concerns of the decade, be it field reports about labour struggles in India, dissections of rising ecological problems, or explorations about women’s societal role in a progressive India. The magazine also showcased leading writers, researchers, commentators, and intellectuals, from India and abroad—Nissim Ezekiel, Farrukh Dhondy, John Berger, to name a few—through columns, interviews, original fiction, and poetry.
