The Jaipur Center for Art (JCA), founded by HH Sawai Padmanabh Singh (Pacho) and Noelle Kadar, opened on 22 November 2024. Located within the iconic City Palace of Jaipur, the 2,600 sq. ft. public exhibition space aims to spotlight Jaipur’s cultural heritage while integrating it into global contemporary art conversations.
In his work Ways of Seeing, John Berger states, “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled,” beautifully expanding the opportunities that lie in the state of being unsettled. A sentiment expanded upon by Jacques Lacan, who ties perception to desire, unconscious thought, and societal constructs. A function of time formulated for both, constance and variance. A New Way of Seeing, curated by Peter Nagy is the inaugural exhibition at the JCA and explores these unsettled realms through works by Indian and international artists that probe the ways we perceive and make sense of art, and through it, the shifting contours of the present moment.
