City As Collage

Title: City as Collage zine
Medium: Single colour screen-printed cover, indigo colour prints on sticker paper and photocopied inside pages.
Size: About A5
Year: 2025
In an Edition of 200

Sameer’s relationship with the city transforms into a visual collage that blends and rearranges photography and drawn forms in this work. He very often uses photography as an observational tool, seeing the city as a patchwork – a collage of many seemingly disconnected elements that come together over periods of time. The work takes form of a zine, a format that reflects Sameer’s interest in accessible, independent publishing. It invites the viewer to flip through the city page by page, with two unique photographs tucked inside the cover pages like personal bookmarks or quiet discoveries. Here, the city becomes both subject and medium, like a constant shape-shifting, living, breathing, organism, where change is the only constant. Kulavoor doesn’t just document it but offers it back to us as something both known and entirely new.

City As Collage was part of  ‘The Artist As’, a group show at TARQ – curated by Vaidehi Gohil and Sonakshi Bhandari between 12 June – 14 August 2025.

Featuring all eighteen artists from TARQ’s program, the exhibition invites artists to inhabit the many roles, ideas and positions that characterise their practice–positions that are not assumed but also lived. From storyteller to autobiographer, from emotion to space, this exhibition asks: what is the artist, if not also a gatherer, a dreamer, an observer, a constructor of meaning?

Each artists’ presentation centres on a singular chosen role. Together, the works in the show build a shared space of ‘becoming’ where process becomes part of content. Through this lens, the works are presented alongside research materials, tools, notes, and other fragments of process that are often hidden away in studios or archives.

“Through a curatorial methodology that encourages collaboration with the artists, a series of interconnected moments of conversations and discussions come together in this exhibition to create a new discursive space around artistic practice” writes Vaidehi Gohil.

Click here for more about the show