Kaalchakra कालचक्र | LDF 2025

OSA Studio, in partnership with London Design festival presents ; KAALCHAKRA कालचक्र an exhibition curated by Daksh Goel and Oishi Roy Dutta

KAALCHAKRA underscores the enduring relevance of cyclical time in understanding our place within the continuum of existence. At the heart of this exhibition lies a quiet provocation: what if time doesn’t move forward, but turns? What if our experiences, emotions, memories,even our sense of self,are not linear threads, but seasonal returns?This group-show draws from South Asian cosmologies and ecological rhythms, where time is understood as a cycle rather than a line. In these traditions, the kaalchakra or the wheel of time is an ever-turning force, echoing the rotations of the Earth, the phases of the moon, the pulse of breath and blood. It resists the modern understanding of time being linear, of events, memories and experiences having a beginning or an end.In trying to control and understand times, we’ve fallen out of sync with the very cycles that sustain us. The dissonance is felt in our bodies, our ecosystems, and our collective psyche.

KAALCHAKRA proposes a return to a rhythm that inhabits every organic system in hopes to reconnect with our own internal cycles.Twenty-four artists respond to the twelve months of the year, each month shared between two voices. This framework unfolding over a 24-hour loop invites the viewer to experience time as breath, as tide, as repetition with variation. The works span sound, sculpture, installation, and image, evoking the textures of rain, heat, decay, stillness, and bloom. This show uses art and design as an engine to activate these enduring ecological rhythms.Rather than presenting time as something to chase or conquer, this exhibition offers it as something to inhabit. To live cyclically is to allow space for return: seasons, emotions, memories, and selves.

KAALCHAKRA does not seek resolution. It invites us to reimagine our lives not as a race toward endings, but as a deep, looping participation in something ongoing, natural, and profoundly human so that we can better understand our place in the cosmic spectrum.