TARQ’s exhibition invites us to meet the artist not only through their work, but through the roles they live—As Observer, As Vessel, As Autobiographer, As Transit. These roles are more than artistic positions; they are ways of seeing, remembering, sensing, and becoming. Each artist’s presentation dissolves the divide between product and process, artwork and life.
By weaving together narrative practices (which help people author and re-author identity) with embodied EXA processes (which let those stories surface through the senses), this workshop transforms the gallery into a shared field of becoming—where artist and audience are no longer separate, but co-witnesses and co-creators.
"As an Expressive Arts facilitator working at the intersection of narrative and embodiment, my role is to bridge the viewer and the maker, using the body, memory, and imagination as tools of connection. I believe stories don’t just live in language—they live in gesture, in posture, in symbol, in texture. Through this workshop, participants are invited not to just view the show, but to enter it, inhabit it, and respond from within.
This work matters because it reclaims art engagement as a participatory, meaning-making act. It allows viewers to step into roles—whether drawn from the exhibition or their own life stories—and explore them somatically and expressively through movement, image-making, and collective reflection. In this space, a role like “As Archivist” may become a lens to remember, “As Ehsasat” a doorway to emotion, “As Friend” a container for connection," explains Niharika Lohia.
About Niharika Lohia
Niharika wears two hats in this unique workshop—one as an experienced art world professional, bringing the audience closer to contemporary art by breaking the glass-wall between the viewer and artist by merging artwork expertise with Art Based Therapeutic Body based practices - inviting participants to experience art not just as an observer but as an active participant in a journey of self-discovery.