National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kalaghoda Arts Association and Avid Learning present Shakti: Women as Power in Indian Art  an evocative panel discussion celebrating the recent exhibition ‘Shakti: A Retrospective’ of Rini Dhumal. In this session, prominent female artists will look at the changing face of women's representation in Art. This session will also look at Rini’s work that depicts women of all ages, merging the earthly with the spiritual, extrapolating the spirit within each woman. The speakers will discuss the work of pioneering women working in the realm of modern art, their visual grammar, and their intellectual influences by taking a journey through this period of seismic shift within the Indian arts as well as its effects on the woman, both as the subject and the creator of visual arts.

Delve into creative processes of artists and discuss artworks in India depicting admirable women from history and mythology and discuss the role of gender in modern Indian art.