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Concept
The exhibition is a retrospective on the development and evolution of contemporary Indian art practices. The Festival Advisory Committee worked with major museums, galleries, and institutions, as well as private collectors and artists, to loan the final 133 artworks in the exhibition. The two separate installations of the exhibition, 'The Gesture, and Motif' followed by 'Stories, Situations', were created to highlight two different categories of artists working in or from India. The former category includes artists whose work have an emblematic quality with figures that are highly stylized. The second category includes artists whose work is more focused on story telling.

Part I of the exhibition was focused on exploring the history of movements among contemporary Indian artists, including modernism, abstraction, and aestheticism. These diverse artists and their practices were mostly united by an expressed interest in what the curator Geeta Kapur called the "revealed motif" or when the image itself transcends the specific historical conditions of its production.

The second part of the exhibition concentrated on works made primarily by a younger generation or artists. The work of nearly all of the painters and sculptors in 'Stories, Situations', is either figurative or episodic, and often reflects the details of the artists everyday lives. Many of the artists were also filmmakers and their work in that media could have influenced their focus on narrative in their paintings as well.