Amar Kanwar

Name: Amar Kanwar
Start: 2026-09-01
End: 2027-01-31
Location: Serpentine North Gallery
Rating: 4

1 September 2026 to 31 January 2027

Video & Moving Image Installation

Critic score

4/5 from 1 rating

Serpentine North presents a major solo by New Delhi filmmaker Amar Kanwar — a site-specific installation of new and existing films transforming the gallery into a meditative environment tracing the legacies of decolonisation, partition and displacement in the Indian subcontinent.

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For over two decades, New Delhi-based artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar has developed a distinctive body of lyrical films that move between documentary, travelogue and visual essay. This major solo exhibition unfolds as a site-specific installation, bringing together new and existing films to transform Serpentine North into a meditative visual and sonic environment. Kanwar’s works often trace the legacies of decolonialisation and the partition of India and Pakistan....

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Critic Review

The Guardian

Ben Eastham

Unflinching Indian artist dares you to step into the darkness (literally)

"Like much of Kanwar’s work, Such a Morning makes demands on your patience. Anyone attempting to make simple sense of the film is likely to sympathise with the professor groping blindly around in the dark. But it is worth putting in the time, because Kanwar’s commitment to doubt as a precursor of knowledge carries a political charge in the present."

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