The Guild and Monsoon Culture Club is delighted to share that Traces of Light Amongst Ruins, a solo exhibition of the works of Zakkir Hussain, is travelling to The Guild in Alibaug. Initially previewed at the Draavidia Gallery in Kochi, the show makes a careful negotiation between the vulnerability of consciousness and the cynicism of the world. Hussain brings together daily objects that might be discarded in the everyday, together with the human form, revealing a hidden world that establishes connection to diverse realms of experience. The abandoned, erased and denied become a point of tension, a failure of orthodoxy, that he navigates with great attention in his constructed world. The images he brings out connect 'dilapidated ecosystems and fragile lifelines across time and space', in the artist's words, moving past convention and into a new state.
Zakkir Hussain, born 1970, Kerala, India is a contemporary Indian artist whose works deal with contemporary issues. He was invited to be part of the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale curated by Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu in 2012. Some of his shows include The Ark and Other Works, curated by T. M. Shihab, Draavidia Art Gallery, Kochi, 2025; Contemporary Art from India, Lapidarium, Croatia, 2024; The Chaos Trilogy II: Aliens in a Foreign Land, curated by Premjish Achari, The Guild, 2023; Cloak and Dagger: India's Fictional Times, curated by Shaheen Merali, Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, 2021; Lokame Tharavadu (The World Is One Family), curated by Bose Krishnamachari, Alappuzha Kerala, 2021; Works on Paper: Mapping Subjects and Methods, The Guild, Alibaug, 2020; Futures Present, curated by Sathyanand Mohan, The Guild in collaboration with Gallery White, Baroda, 2018; Mattancherry, curated by Riyas Komu, Uru Art Harbour, Kochi, 2017; among others.