Born in 1995 in Rajasthan, Bhimanshu Pandel is a visual artist-researcher whose practice explores ecological traditions in the region’s arid desert landscapes. His rural, agrarian roots shape his artistic sensibility, incorporating studies of native flora, sacred myths, cultural tools, and minerals to unearth indigenous living histories. Engaging with communities such as the Bishnoi, Rebari, Bhopa-Bhopi, Gujar, Banjara, and Charan, his research examines the agency of the desert and its historical human interactions.

In Rajasthan, where little grows, each plant holds sacred significance—an idea that informs his botanical drawings. His sculptures, emerging from domestic agrarian spaces, explore collective memory through a hauntological lens. His multidisciplinary practice includes drawings, sculptures, and site-specific installations, such as Rohi ki chittar (2022, Anant Art Gallery), Ghar aangan guad main kheta rhi hi goonj (2024, Anant Art Gallery), and Whispers of the Village Punlota (2021), an installation that disintegrated into the soil of his ancestral village.

In this exhibition, Indigo becomes both medium and metaphor — a vessel for forgotten stories, loss, resistance and renewal. Its journey across geographies and centuries is mirrored in the works on display, where tradition and experimentation converge, and where echoes of the past are reinterpreted through contemporary sensibilities.

Latent Echoes invites us to listen – to recognize the traces of history within the present. To acknowledge that the past is never truly past, but always waiting — latent, yet resonant — to be seen, heard, and reimagined.