
Group Exhibition
Group Exhibition
Group Exhibition
The (Mal)functions of Light
The (Mal)functions of Light
The (Mal)functions of Light
Date
January 31, 2026
Date
January 31, 2026
Date
January 31, 2026
Artist in Focus
Nicole Khadivi, Yousuke Fuyama, The back studio
Artist in Focus
Nicole Khadivi, Yousuke Fuyama, The back studio
Artist in Focus
Nicole Khadivi, Yousuke Fuyama, The back studio
Location
Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi
Location
Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi
Location
Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi




Group Exhibition
The (Mal)functions of Light
Date
January 31, 2026
Artist in Focus
Nicole Khadivi, Yousuke Fuyama, The back studio
Location
Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi

Presented by India Art Fair’s Young Collectors’ Programme with the Embassy of Sweden in India and Galerie Geek Art, curated by Wribhu Borphukon
Presented by India Art Fair’s Young Collectors’ Programme with the Embassy of Sweden in India and Galerie Geek Art, curated by Wribhu Borphukon
Presented by India Art Fair’s Young Collectors’ Programme with the Embassy of Sweden in India and Galerie Geek Art, curated by Wribhu Borphukon
Presented by India Art Fair’s Young Collectors’ Programme with the Embassy of Sweden in India and Galerie Geek Art, curated by Wribhu Borphukon
Light in this exhibition is not seen as a singularity, but rather dismantled into operative components. It moves through architectures and bodies, ricocheting off surfaces and skin, reorganising how space is apprehended and inhabited.
The works operate within the dictates of rigorous engineering while remaining deeply affective; at the same time, they produce moments of leaks and slippages—hallucinating and speculating. Within these calibrated systems appear deliberately exposed infrastructures, choreographing a tension between what is seen and what is missed.
These are the in-betweens where inheritances, recollections, and speculations begin to unravel. They surface obliquely, carried in shadows, reflections, and afterimages. It is within these instabilities—where machines, humans, and the forces between them entangle—that they begin to function as carriers of histories, memories, and futures.
Light in this exhibition is not seen as a singularity, but rather dismantled into operative components. It moves through architectures and bodies, ricocheting off surfaces and skin, reorganising how space is apprehended and inhabited.
The works operate within the dictates of rigorous engineering while remaining deeply affective; at the same time, they produce moments of leaks and slippages—hallucinating and speculating. Within these calibrated systems appear deliberately exposed infrastructures, choreographing a tension between what is seen and what is missed.
These are the in-betweens where inheritances, recollections, and speculations begin to unravel. They surface obliquely, carried in shadows, reflections, and afterimages. It is within these instabilities—where machines, humans, and the forces between them entangle—that they begin to function as carriers of histories, memories, and futures.
Nicole Khadivi | Sweden
Nicole Khadivi (b. 1998) is a Swedish–Iranian artist and filmmaker working with lens-based media.
Countering the saturation of artificial image-making, she returns to material foundations: glass, light, and optical mechanics.
Her systems construct image sequences containing no internal memory, positioning the viewer’s eye as an active component.
Often resembling science fiction, her installations explore the shifting relationship between body and image, making visible the unseen machines that quietly shape how the world is seen.
Nicole Khadivi | Sweden
Nicole Khadivi (b. 1998) is a Swedish–Iranian artist and filmmaker working with lens-based media.
Countering the saturation of artificial image-making, she returns to material foundations: glass, light, and optical mechanics.
Her systems construct image sequences containing no internal memory, positioning the viewer’s eye as an active component.
Often resembling science fiction, her installations explore the shifting relationship between body and image, making visible the unseen machines that quietly shape how the world is seen.
Nicole Khadivi | Sweden
Nicole Khadivi (b. 1998) is a Swedish–Iranian artist and filmmaker working with lens-based media.
Countering the saturation of artificial image-making, she returns to material foundations: glass, light, and optical mechanics.
Her systems construct image sequences containing no internal memory, positioning the viewer’s eye as an active component.
Often resembling science fiction, her installations explore the shifting relationship between body and image, making visible the unseen machines that quietly shape how the world is seen.
Nicole Khadivi | Sweden
Nicole Khadivi (b. 1998) is a Swedish–Iranian artist and filmmaker working with lens-based media.
Countering the saturation of artificial image-making, she returns to material foundations: glass, light, and optical mechanics.
Her systems construct image sequences containing no internal memory, positioning the viewer’s eye as an active component.
Often resembling science fiction, her installations explore the shifting relationship between body and image, making visible the unseen machines that quietly shape how the world is seen.




Yousuke Fuyama | Japan
Born in 1983 and based in Tokyo, Yousuke Fuyama is a composer and audiovisual artist whose practice spans video, sound, and installation.
Integrating digital programming with deconstructionist thought, he explores the interconversion of data into sensory environments where image and sound unfold as a single experience.
Fuyama’s work bridges contemporary art and underground culture, interlacing human intuition with technological process to construct immersive, boundary-transcending experiences that reveal media as both analytical and poetic.
Yousuke Fuyama | Japan
Born in 1983 and based in Tokyo, Yousuke Fuyama is a composer and audiovisual artist whose practice spans video, sound, and installation.
Integrating digital programming with deconstructionist thought, he explores the interconversion of data into sensory environments where image and sound unfold as a single experience.
Fuyama’s work bridges contemporary art and underground culture, interlacing human intuition with technological process to construct immersive, boundary-transcending experiences that reveal media as both analytical and poetic.
Yousuke Fuyama | Japan
Born in 1983 and based in Tokyo, Yousuke Fuyama is a composer and audiovisual artist whose practice spans video, sound, and installation.
Integrating digital programming with deconstructionist thought, he explores the interconversion of data into sensory environments where image and sound unfold as a single experience.
Fuyama’s work bridges contemporary art and underground culture, interlacing human intuition with technological process to construct immersive, boundary-transcending experiences that reveal media as both analytical and poetic.
Yousuke Fuyama | Japan
Born in 1983 and based in Tokyo, Yousuke Fuyama is a composer and audiovisual artist whose practice spans video, sound, and installation.
Integrating digital programming with deconstructionist thought, he explores the interconversion of data into sensory environments where image and sound unfold as a single experience.
Fuyama’s work bridges contemporary art and underground culture, interlacing human intuition with technological process to construct immersive, boundary-transcending experiences that reveal media as both analytical and poetic.
The Back Studio | India & Italy
Established in 2020 by Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor, The Back Studio creates eclectic assemblages that are simultaneously sculptural and functional.
Influenced by the ubiquity of architecture, the duo harnesses tactile materiality to reveal inconspicuous elements of construction processes.
Their work serves as a commentary on duality, adroitly juxtaposing the near-obsolete craft of cold cathode glass working with digitized mass-fabrication.
Through this lens, they transform stubborn architectural forms into novel, interactive experiences.
The Back Studio | India & Italy
Established in 2020 by Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor, The Back Studio creates eclectic assemblages that are simultaneously sculptural and functional.
Influenced by the ubiquity of architecture, the duo harnesses tactile materiality to reveal inconspicuous elements of construction processes.
Their work serves as a commentary on duality, adroitly juxtaposing the near-obsolete craft of cold cathode glass working with digitized mass-fabrication.
Through this lens, they transform stubborn architectural forms into novel, interactive experiences.
The Back Studio | India & Italy
Established in 2020 by Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor, The Back Studio creates eclectic assemblages that are simultaneously sculptural and functional.
Influenced by the ubiquity of architecture, the duo harnesses tactile materiality to reveal inconspicuous elements of construction processes.
Their work serves as a commentary on duality, adroitly juxtaposing the near-obsolete craft of cold cathode glass working with digitized mass-fabrication.
Through this lens, they transform stubborn architectural forms into novel, interactive experiences.
The Back Studio | India & Italy
Established in 2020 by Eugenio Rossi and Yaazd Contractor, The Back Studio creates eclectic assemblages that are simultaneously sculptural and functional.
Influenced by the ubiquity of architecture, the duo harnesses tactile materiality to reveal inconspicuous elements of construction processes.
Their work serves as a commentary on duality, adroitly juxtaposing the near-obsolete craft of cold cathode glass working with digitized mass-fabrication.
Through this lens, they transform stubborn architectural forms into novel, interactive experiences.




Artist in focus
