Armory Show 2025

Aicon Contemporary is pleased to return to The Armory Show with After Nature, a group presentation featuring a breadth of our program: H.G. Arunkumar, Marcy Chevali, G.R. Iranna, Shradha Kochhar, Katja Larsson, Dhara Mehrotra, Jagannath Panda, Promotesh Das Pulak, L.N. Tallur, Priyantha Udagedara, and Adeel uz Zafar. In this year’s exhibition, the relationship between humanity and the natural world takes center stage, as an investigation into what “nature” has become in the wake of industrialization and displacement. The works touch on feelings of loss, resilience, and change, reflecting on the complexities of our planetary condition with measured intensity. Across sculpture, painting, textile, and installation, the artists featured in After Nature engage with the natural world as both collaborators and witnesses. The presentation unfolds through material inquiries, mythic storytelling, and a reverence for the handmade, with each artist contributing a unique vantage point.

Jagannath Panda and Priyantha Udagedara, celebrated for their intricately layered works, dissolve the lines between the natural and the mythical sanctum, exploring hybridity, transformation, and the instinctive entanglement of the human and non-human.

G.R. Iranna’s contemplative paintings draw on spiritual traditions to reflect on the cycles of destruction and rebirth, while Dhara Mehrotra’s biomorphic abstractions channel microscopic life forms to explore the cosmic thread of all beings. 

The discourse is continued by  Adeel uz Zafar’s intricately etched surfaces, which reveal tension between preservation and exposure; and Marcy Chevali's works, which evoke tenderness and spiritual discord through repetition and gesture; furthermore, Promotesh Das Pulak and L.N. Tallur employ irony to critique the legacies of colonialism and ecological violence.