Grand Hyatt Mumbai Unveils Japanoise: A Landmark Exhibition Exploring Indian and Japanese Aesthetic Dialogues

24^th November, 2024, Monday: Grand Hyatt Mumbai Hotel and Residences presents Japanoise: In the Shadow of the Floating World, an exhibition by Lakeeren Contemporary that brings together leading voices in Indian contemporary art. The exhibition is now open to the public and will remain on view until 3 January 2026 at Grand Hyatt Mumbai.

 Featuring artworks by Anju Dodiya, Astha Butail, Dayanita Singh, Manjunath Kamath, Meenakshi Nihalani, Mithu Sen, Parul Gupta, Remen Chopra Van Der Vaart, Shaurya Kumar, Shilpa Gupta, Thukral and Tagra, and Vinita Mungi, Japanoise reimagines the dialogue between Indian art and Japanese aesthetic philosophies. Moving beyond the lens of Japonisme, the exhibition foregrounds shared conceptual and material approaches rather than surface stylistic borrowings.

 The exhibition engages deeply with ideas of ephemerality, stillness, emptiness, repair, and the poetics of nature, drawing from concepts such as ma, wabi sabi, kintsugi, and the floating world. These works propose new ways of thinking about perception and time outside Western frameworks, revealing resonances across histories and geographies.

Highlights include Anju Dodiya’s The Red Cord (2017), a shaped mattress surface that navigates the tension between vulnerability and discipline, and Astha Butail’s Quintessence of Martand Part I (2025), which bridges Vedic cosmology and the clarity of Japanese minimalism. Dayanita Singh’s Montage VIII (2019) forms an architecture of memory through analogue photographs that enact the principle of ma.

 Meenakshi Nihalani’s Riverside Works (2025) revisits indigo through the lens of migration and labour, while Mithu Sen’s Kintsugi I–III (2025) transforms the idea of repair into a feminist statement of power and resilience. Remen Chopra Van Der Vaart’s Kiku I (2025) and Parul Gupta’s Notes on Movement (2025) reinterpret space, rhythm, and time as living structures. The exhibition closes with Vinita Mungi’s Zen Garden (2025), which reframes the classical Zen garden through postcolonial and feminist thought.

 Together, the artworks shape a new constellation between India and Japan that privileges philosophical affinities and shared sensibilities over imitation. Japanoise invites viewers into a world where silence becomes language and where subtle gestures carry profound meaning.

Exhibition Details

Venue: Grand Hyatt Mumbai Hotel and Residences
On view until: 3 January 2026