Slow Is The New Urgent

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is thrilled to announce a transformative art installation housed in the KNMA Art Passage, the skybridge connecting Nexus Select CITYWALK and DLF South Court Mall – ‘Slow Is The New Urgent’, curated by Avik Debdas. The location of the exhibition adheres to KNMA’s mission of integrating meaningful artistic experiences into everyday public spaces.A colorful trail of turtles sets the pace, inviting visitors through an immersive passage of artistic contemplation.

Featuring eleven contemporary artists—Anshu Jakhar, C.K. Rajan, Hifzul Kabeer, K.M. Madhusudanan, Manveer Singh, Mohd. Intiyaz, Pallavi Singh, Schön Mendes, Slipa Sheeja, Sonam Chaturvedi, and Tahsin Akhtar— an environment that gradually shifts from digital and commercial sensory stimulation quiet introspection, encouraging slow looking. The visitor then crosses a sanctuary of muted birds, televisions that blare a chorus of toxicity, rivers dyed in synthetic excess, and many other such markers of the rampant consumerism that litter the wider world. The ‘thinking passage’ also goes on to bring to the forefront the omnipresent digital surveillance that pervades

modern life. The works illuminate how our every choice, pause, and click is methodically recorded, monetized, and fed back into algorithms that curate our next impulse. The exhibition confronts visitors with the unsettling reality that our desires are increasingly engineered rather than authentic—optimized, and resold to us through the manipulative language of urgency, transforming even our attention itself into a marketable commodity.

This exhibition is an extension of KNMA’s ongoing commitment to democratizing art. By establishing this thoughtful corridor in one of Delhi’s busiest commercial centers, the museum invites diverse audiences to experience how art can create moments of pause within our increasingly urgent world. Each segment of the passage encourages visitors to engage with what literary scholar Arden Reed describes as art that ” waits mutely—patiently—for us to animate them.