Uncounted Rounds | 2025
October 10 – November 16, 2025
Nature Morte, Dhan Mill, New Delhi
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Uncounted Rounds refers to struggles that exceed measure: the recurring cycles of sowing and failure under shifting climates, the endless negotiations between body and land, and the lives left unacknowledged in official histories. The exhibition gathers both protest and persistence, suggesting that the match is never truly over while the fight for dignity, survival, and recognition continues.
The exhibition unfolds around an unfinished contest between survival and erasure, labour and recognition, voice and silence. Drawing on the farmers’ protests of 2018–2021, Thukral and Tagra present works that speak to collective memory and resilience, including archives of the Trolley Times newsletter, a monumental account of lives lost, and paintings that reimagine the akhara (wrestling arena) as a field of endurance.
This research-led project began in 2011, tracing the artists’ family histories, their engagement with the farming community in Punjab, and their deepening interest in ecology and the human condition. Over the years, it has evolved into an ongoing exploration of memory, labour, and collective experience.
Uncounted Rounds marks the 13th iteration of this long-term project, expanding on ideas and documentation published in their 2021 publication, Weeping Farm.
Audio Guide ＿Walkthrough: https://uncountedrounds.andarchive.in/