Architecture of Remembering is a duo exhibition featuring Philippe Calia and Supriyo Manna, presented at Alliance Française de Chandigarh.
The exhibition approaches remembering as an active process shaped by space and time. Through photography, video, text, research, and site specific practices, the artists reflect on how communities relate to place, history, and shared experience.
Calia works across image, film, and writing, linking personal stories with social and political questions. Manna’s practice draws from local knowledge systems, ecology, and architecture, connecting memory with land and material.
Presented by Tak Contemporary in collaboration with Alliance Française de Trivandrum and Alliance Française de Chandigarh.
📍 AF Gallery, Alliance Française de Chandigarh
📅 February 27 to March 20, 2026
🕠 Opening on February 27 at 6 pm with the artists
Opening hours
> Monday to Friday 10 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm
> Saturday 10 am to 1 pm
> Free entry. All welcome.
Philippe Calia
Philippe Calia (b. 1985, Paris) is a French-born, India-based visual artist whose practice engages with notions of time and memory, often navigating between the personal and the collective, poetics and politics. He works primarily with photography, video and text, adopting a conceptual approach that draws on his dual training in photography and social sciences. Everyday encounters are central to his work, placed in dialogue with a wide range of disciplines including modern literature, anthropology, geology and theoretical physics.
Supriyo Manna
Supriyo Manna (b. 1993, Kolkata) is an artist and pedagogue whose practice is informed by flux across geographical, psychological, and philosophical spaces. His process draws on native knowledge systems, rooted in histories, bodies, and memories, to amplify the unheard voices of disregarded post-humanist sites, occupations, and ecosystems. Supriyo has transformed his site awareness into a cross-disciplinary, site-specific engagement that intersects research and material inquiry. His interests lie in fields such as botany, museology, architecture, and urban planning. He is currently based in Bangalore.
TAK CONTEMPORARY
TAK Contemporary is a trio of art curators, of Indian origin based in Paris. Founded in 2023, the initiative aims to encourage and promote artists from the Indian subcontinent and its diaspora enhancing the visibility of Indian contemporary art in Europe. Simultaneously, it seeks to introduce international artists to India, fostering a vibrant cultural exchange.
Event Venue
Alliance Francaise Chandigarh, Sector, 36A, Sector 36, Chandigarh, 160036, Inde, India
INR 0.00
