Generator Grantees | Round 10 | June 2026

  • The Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund announces the grantees in its tenth round. We are proud to support 15 diverse...
    The Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund announces the grantees in its tenth round. We are proud to support 15 diverse projects by: Aditi Aggarwal; Aditya Basnet; Akshay Bhoan; Dhruvil Dhirubhai Bavadiya; Dhrubajit Sarma; Harmeet Singh Rahal; Harun Al Rashid Mollah; Maham Chiragh and Sadaf Habib; Novita Singh; Pranab Chakraborty; Reppandee Lepcha; Sathish Kumar; Shiv Shankar; Shubhra Dixit; and Somporko. This round of applications was evaluated by curator and writer Natasha Ginwala; art historian and curator Rattanamol Singh Johal; and artist and curator Jitish Kallat; with the Experimenter team.
  • Aditi Aggarwal Aditi Aggarwal

    Aditi Aggarwal

    Aditi Aggarwal is a visual artist based out of Delhi NCR. Her practice investigates image-making as durational, material, and political processes. Working across painting, artist books, and alternative methods, she constructs complex surfaces where multiple temporalities accumulate. 
     
    The Generator grant will support Aditi Aggarwal’s project, ‘POLY-TIME: An Accumulation of Coexisting', that explores how images hold multiple temporalities at once—past, present, and uncertain futures layered together. Emerging from environmental uncertainty, urban instability, and unequal conditions of survival, the project approaches image-making as a multifaceted process of memory, duration, and material accumulation. 
     
    Aditi Aggarwal, b. 1987; lives and works in Greater Noida, India.
  • Aditya Basnet Aditya Basnet

    Aditya Basnet

    Born in Simikot, Humla, Aditya Basnet’s practice explores memory, migration, and childhood in Nepal’s Himalayan borderlands. As a filmmaker and high-altitude cinematographer, he works with children from his hometown to bridge their realities with the outside world.
     
    Aditya Basnet’s film, ‘No Road Leads to Our Name’, is semi-autobiographical in nature, rooted in the Himalayan landscape, and infused with a strong indigenous presence. It is a blend of animation, folklore, and lived memory told through the eyes of mountain children from Humla that was shot over seven years. The Generator grant will support Basnet in reaching professional theatrical standards in his work.
     
    Aditya Basnet, b. 1995; lives and works in Kathmandu, Nepal.
     
    Photo credit: Abin Shakya (Abinay)
  • Akshay Bhoan Akshay Bhoan

    Akshay Bhoan

    Akshay Bhoan is a lens based artist. His practice explores the transitory nature of knowledge, memory, and perception-unfolding through photography, mixed media, and interactive installation. Bhoan constructs dialogues between past and present, tracing how historical residues shape identity and visibility in contemporary life.
     
    With the support of the Generator grant, Akshay Bhoan will expand on his project, ‘Bāzgasht’—public readings of Urdu poetry in ordinary urban sites where the language’s presence is contested. Readings are captured on camera, each frame a witness to the brief alliance of language, body, and site. Listening becomes an act of presence, a gathering around words that once filled the streets but are now prohibited. Bhoan’s project will transform these videos into tactile sequential publications that will take the form of flipbooks. 
     
    Akshay Bhoan (b. 1986); is based between Gurugram, India and London, UK.
     
    Photo credit: Srinivas Kuruganti
  • Dhrubajit Sarma Dhrubajit Sarma

    Dhrubajit Sarma

    Dhrubajit Sarma is an artist, educator, and filmmaker currently based in the Rani Forest Division, Assam. Rooted in long-term observation and field research, his work explores environmental transformation and shifting temporalities within the changing landscapes of Assam. Sarma also organises and facilitates co-learning situations that engage with rural philosophy and address ecological urgencies. 
     
    Sarma will use the Generator grant to continue working on his project, ‘Bitter Rice’ (working title), a hand-drawn digital animation film that is centred on the changing ecology of the Rani Forest Division, located ten kilometres southwest of Guwahati city. He began working on it in 2022 as part of the Anga Art Collective Granary project—the film documents seasonal shifts and ecological disruptions that interrupt human and elephant relations within the region. 
     
    Dhrubajit Sarma, b. 1987; lives and works in the Rani Forest Division, Assam, India. 
     
    Photo credit: Pankaj Sarma
  • Dhruvil Dhirubhai Bavadiya Dhruvil Dhirubhai Bavadiya

    Dhruvil Dhirubhai Bavadiya

    Dhruvil Dhirubhai Bavadiya is a visual artist from Vadodara, Gujarat where he is currently based. His practice, using oxide pigments and ceramics, is an exploration of transience and ephemerality where soft, unconscious rhythms meet the mundane and transform into the mystical.
     
    The Generator grant will support Dhruvil's project, ‘Shadows Meeting the Feet’, a 162-inch ceramic scroll composed of 14 variable stoneware slabs painted with underglaze. He drew inspiration for this body of work from traditional Chinese scroll paintings and the "everlasting fleetingness" of his surroundings. The sculptural installation reverses classical conventions by making shadows the central subject. 
     
    Dhruvil Dhirubhai Bavadiya, b. 2002; lives and works in Vadodara, India.
     
    Photo credit: Yash Gajjar 
  • Harmeet Singh Rahal Harmeet Singh Rahal

    Harmeet Singh Rahal

    Harmeet Rahal is an artist and filmmaker based between Mumbai and London. His practice is an inquiry into bootlegged narratives and the time-travelling potential in cyclical histories. He works across moving-image, print, drawing, sound, and installation.
     
    The Generator grant will support the research and development of Rahal’s project, ‘Prophecies (DATAFLOOD I)’, a short film about biometric surveillance and the paranoia that comes with state-controlled subjecthood. Using tropes of prophecy-fiction, his film looks at the repeated leaks and breaches of Aadhaar (India's biometric ID system) as part of a 5000-year-old flood cycle, which began with the prehistoric city of Mohenjo-daro, flooded and rebuilt repeatedly.
     
    Harmeet Singh Rahal, b. 1996; is based between Mumbai, India and London, UK. 
    Photo credit: Katarzyna Perlak
  • Harun Al Rashid Mollah Harun Al Rashid Mollah

    Harun Al Rashid Mollah

    Harun Al Rashid Mollah is an artist based in Howrah, West Bengal whose interdisciplinary practice investigates memory, rupture, and cultural erasure through textile, archival, and image-based forms. He uses layering and material intervention to reflect on various themes that include fractured histories and the persistence of marginalized identities.
     
    The Generator grant will support Harun’s project, ‘Raakh / Archive – what remains, what disappears’, which asks what remains when histories, faith, and cultural memory are reduced to fragments and ash. It is a site-responsive installation responding to the destruction of the Azizia Madrasa library in Bihar Sharif during communal violence. Rather than reconstructing the lost archive, Harun will create a sensory experience of absence through a paper-cut enclosure, partially obscured damaged Qur’an, and embroidered photographic elements.
     
    Harun Al Rashid Mollah, b. 1997; lives and works in Howrah, India. 
     
    Photo credit: Mothe Mahesh
  • Maham Chiragh & Sadaf Habib Maham Chiragh & Sadaf Habib

    Maham Chiragh & Sadaf Habib

    Maham Chiragh is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and researcher, experimenting with visual mediums, sound and writing as a part of both her individual and collaborative practice. Her work traverses intimacies of what exists within and without the body(ies), and gestures to encounters between ecology, sacred places, alternative histories, dreams, and embodied knowledge. 
     
    Sadaf Habib is a researcher, inter-disciplinary artist, and lecturer with a deep interest in music, knowledge and art forms, especially those informed by rooted histories, in societal margins and nature-based communities.
     
    With the support of the Generator grant, Maham and Sadaf will continue working on their project, ‘Amruta’, an audio-visual performance project rooted in the Karoonjhar hills. They interpret the myth of an immortal plant, Amruta (Sanskrit for nectar of immortality), and the remembrance that she awakens in the time of Kalyug (the age of forgetting). The narrative is anchored in a sacred relationship to the land, folk stories, bhakti music/poetry, and practices of reverence. This work continues to weave together different sonic, visual, and poetic encounters that Chiragh and Habib had in the landscape.
    Maham Chiragh, b. 1993; lives and works in Karachi, Pakistan.
    Sadaf Habib, b. 1992; is based between Lahore, Pakistan and Melbourne, Australia.
  • Novita Singh Novita Singh

    Novita Singh

    Novita Singh is a filmmaker and writer from Punjab. Her work centres on stories of rural India, agrarian life, women farmers, protest movements, democratic expressions, and those who live at the margins of media and memory.
     
    The Generator grant will support Novita Singh’s work on ’Jamhuriyat’ over the last five years during which she brought together 16 months of documentation. Set in the aftermath of one of the world’s largest protests—Indian farmers’ protest (2020-2021)—’Jamhuriyat’ explores what democracy looks like on ground for those long excluded from political power. Rather than retelling the events of the protest, the film traces its afterlife: how months of collective resistance reshape everyday life and self-perception. It moves between protest sites and follows a community whose participation in the movement sparks a profound political awakening.
     
    Novita Singh, b. 1986; lives and works in Patiala, India. 
     
    Photo credit: Ahmad Shaqlain
  • Pranab Chakraborty Pranab Chakraborty

    Pranab Chakraborty

    Pranab Chakraborty is an artist from Alipurduar, West Bengal, currently based in Guwahati, Assam. His practice has evolved from documenting personal experiences towards observing socio-environmental shifts in Guwahati where he recently completed his BFA. He is currently expanding his conceptual reach and experimenting with diverse mediums to develop his creative expression.
     
    Chakraborty will use the Generator grant to document the changing landscape of Guwahati city through labour, migration, and personal narratives in relation to the Basistha hill region. He will explore how environmental transformation reshapes land, identity, and memory by engaging with various urban elements. Using archival methods, Chakraborty intends to reflect on the sociopolitical and cultural contexts of the evolving city primarily through painting and drawing. He will also include printmaking, photography, and mixed media elements to his final body of work which will function as both a historical and personal archive.
     
    Pranab Chakraborty, b. 1999; lives and works in 
    Guwahati, India. 
  • Reppandee Lepcha Reppandee Lepcha

    Reppandee Lepcha

    Reppandee Lepcha is an artist from Sikkim whose practice weaves calligraphy, Rongring (the Lepcha script) and natural materials such as clay, nettle wool, and fabric into layered surfaces where text is both revealed and concealed. Her work navigates the tension between continuity and erasure, responding to the ever-shifting landscape of the region. 
     
    The Generator grant will support Reppandee Lepcha’s project that treats language as a living archive, keeping it present, visible, and engaged with contemporary life. Drawing from Lepcha cultural traditions and the Rong script, it responds to a language existing at the margins–not through mourning, but urgency. The outcome will be a large-scale clay tile installation where script, folklore, and memory merge into layered visual landscapes.
     
    Reppandee Lepcha, b. 1997; lives and works in Dzongu, Sikkim, India.
     
    Photo credit: Sushmita Sarkar
  • Sathish Kumar Sathish Kumar

    Sathish Kumar

    Sathish Kumar’s photographic practice transforms everyday moments into intimate reflections on life, memory, and human connection. Rooted in close observation of his surroundings, his work explores personal journeys and quiet encounters. 
     
    The Generator grant will support Kumar’s project, ‘Sunlight’—an ongoing body of work he began during the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged from feelings of confinement, unease, and anxiety. Sunlight became a symbol of hope, gradually easing the darkness of isolation. The photographs trace Kumar’s journey from lockdown into the post-pandemic years, capturing sites in Hampi, Kanchipuram, Chennai, Mamallapuram, shifting forms of light, and loved ones. Together, these images reflect moments of balance between hope and anxiety, connected through time and memory. Kumar will add the element of portraiture to ‘Sunlight’ with the grant—a shift he believes will help build a more layered and poetic narrative.
     
    Sathish Kumar, b. 1986; lives and works in Chennai, India.
     
    Photo credit: Vinith Leetus
  • Shiv Shankar Shiv Shankar

    Shiv Shankar

    Shiv Shankar is a visual artist working across painting, installation, and moving image to address caste violence, memory, and displacement. Using found materials like cement bags and jute, he constructs testimonies from communities erased by institutional history.
     
    The Generator grant will support Shankar’s ongoing project, ‘Laal Zameen’, that responds to the Ranvir Sena—Bramharshi Sena, Lorik Sena, Bhumi Sena, and Lal Sena/Red Army—massacres of 1977–2001 in which hundreds of Dalit and landless labourer families were killed across Bihar's Bhojpur-Jehanabad belt and subsequently erased from institutional record. Through sustained residency in the affected villages, Shankar produced landscape paintings and installations—using found materials, stitched cement bags, jute, and repurposed cloth—recovering the memory of places whose visual archive has never existed. 
     
    Shiv Shankar, b. 1999; lives and works in Vadodara, India. 
  • Shubhra Dixit Shubhra Dixit

    Shubhra Dixit

    Shubhra Dixit is a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and writer based in India. Her practice moves between fieldwork, documentary, and writing on visual culture in South Asia.
     
    Dixit will use the grant to work on ‘A Season in Suru’, a fragmented elegy for a summer in Kargil, exploring the freedom of girlhood and the weight of ritual grief. Developed in Taisuru, a Shi’a Muslim village in Suru Valley, Kargil, the film shifts between Muharram rituals, children’s gestures, and everyday life to reflect on mourning and play as a continuum.
     
    Shubhra Dixit, b. 1986; lives and works in Lucknow, India. 
  • Somporko Somporko

    Somporko

    Somporko (est. 2019) is a collective currently comprising 20 individuals led by Jitaditya Chakraborty based in Kolkata, India. Chakraborty is a theatre practitioner with 13 years of experience in the field. He explores site-specific theatre through his group Somporko and works as an actor at Minerva Repertory.
     
    Somporko passionately explores the possibilities of site-specific performance. The Generator grant will support the group’s upcoming theatre production, ‘Judhhoseshe’, that follows two young couples—Oishi and Arko in a digitally alienated city, and Rafia and Junaid in a war-conflicted state—whose lives become connected through unsent letters. Staged inside the 128-year-old Mitra Institution in Kolkata, the performance transforms rooms, staircases, and windows into stages for memory and metaphor. The audience moves through the space as the story unfolds, blurring the line between witness and participant. ‘Judhhoseshe’ is an invitation to remember, to resist, and to write back.