Art Musings opens their next exhibition on 26^th September 2025 with ‘Intimate Vistas of the Interiors’, a solo show of Nikhil Chaganlal. The exhibition features a capsule collection of only 12 small paintings from the famed interior series by the Goa-based artist. Intimate and personal, the works draw the viewer into the private settings created by Nikhil, drawn from personal memories and experiences.

To quote from the catalogue essay by cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote:

“The interiors that Nikhil Chaganlal evokes in his recent paintings are atmospheres rather than spaces. Cast as memoirs, they capture the flavour of remembered occasions, the texture of half-expressed desires, the fugitive moods that linger in the aftermath of conversation, festivity and the disclosure of self to other. In these frames, the artist fuses the actual with the imagined or symbolic: he merges features that exist, in childhood homes and adult staging-points he has known, with tropes that emblematize styles, periods and idioms of comfort that he cherishes. But where such a subject might have tempted a more flamboyant into a defiantly self-indulgent playing at decadence, Chaganlal brings to his treatment vulnerability that verges on reticence. His gestures, as he invites us into these atmospheres, are those of discreet unveiling rather than flagrant display: his approach is tempered by an awareness that he is about to share a private fantasia with a viewing public, always a fraught encounter. For Chaganlal, the interior is not a spatial description; nor is it simply an immersion in a time-warper’s daydream of elegant living. The interior is a wager on interiority, on an inward retreat that can unquestionably be called home: an ideal zone of belonging where nothing will discomfit or disquiet the resident self, intrude upon its serenity”.