Manohar Chiluveru

Dr. Iyengar is an art historian and institutional curator framing contemporary South Asian visual discourse. Her scholarship interrogates epistemic unlearning and the philosophical translation of regional material cultures within global biennial circuits.

For the December 2026 inaugural exhibition at EkChitra Gallery, she conceives an archival architecture that aligns physical space with Chiluveru’s sculpture, installation, painting, and speculative literature, examining memory and human interiority.

Curatorial Fellowship Structure

An expanding international constellation of guest curators, critics, and resident scholars working across three distinct conceptual inquiries.

Consciousness & Space

Ecological Entanglement

Speculative Literature

Investigating phenomenological transitions between sensory interiority and institutional white-cube architecture through site-specific commissions and research symposia.

Probing material histories of non-human ecologies, mineral pigments, and environmental degradation across the Deccan plateau and Indian Ocean rim.

Publishing experimental critical prose, exhibition catalogues, and narrative fiction that operate in dialogue with contemporary physical installations.

Institutional Research Requests

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