“Manthan” Solo Show of Artworks will be displayed by U.S. based Contemporary Artist Anisha Sanghani at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai

Mumbai, 28th November 2025 :“Manthan” Solo Show of Artworks by US-based Artist Anisha Sanghani at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Mumbai | December 1–6, 2025

Anisha Sanghani’s latest show, “Manthan”, is a conscience-soaked gasp of beauty where oceanic wonders and ancient mythological moorings collide with crushing assaults of consumerism, evoking haunting moments of recognition and reckoning.

As Anisha’s first show in India, “Manthan: Let the Churn Begin Within You”, opens at Kamalnayan Bajaj Art Gallery, Narimant Point, Mumbai from December 1–6, 2025, her canvases surge with the raw, choking terror of a world drowning in its own waste, from plastic-clung fish to gods in recoil.

A U.S.-based Indian contemporary artist with roots in fine arts, textiles, and graphic design, Sanghani reimagines the ancient myth of Samudra Manthan as a modern ecological parable. In her retelling, the divine churning of the cosmic ocean no longer yields celestial treasures—it dredges up the bitter harvest of human negligence: plastic, toxins, and irreversible loss.

Her mixed-media works echo both devotion and desecration. In The New Manthan, a sea turtle journeys across swirling waters as serpents and sea creatures maneuver through surreal mounds of plastic refuse, evoking a world where mythology reels under man-made disaster. In A School of Fish, glistening silver bodies twist among disposable bottles, locked in a frantic dance for survival. Sanghani’s artistic technique—lush, overflowing, almost seductive—draws viewers closer before confronting them with the brutality beneath.

That brutality is not merely imagined. In a haunting set of personal experiments, Sanghani submerged herself in water with her face encased in plastic, attempting to inhabit the suffocating reality of marine creatures trapped in debris. “I became their voice,” she says. The image is devastating: a human being tasting the terror we force upon the ocean’s inhabitants daily.

“Art cannot clean the oceans,” Sanghani notes, “but it can remind us of what they mean to us.” Manthan thus becomes a moral mirror. Each work elicits questions long buried beneath convenience and complacency. What are we taking from the ocean? What are we giving back? And what will surface next if we do not intervene?

“I want to draw viewers in with beauty, only to expose the underlying unease,” she says. Manthan urges every visitor to face that discomfort, beginning their own inner churning toward awareness, responsibility, and renewal.

This show will be inaugurated on 1^st December 2025 at 5pm by Distinguished Guests:

Ms. Nidhi Choudhari, IAS, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mr. Sameer Balvally and Shilpa Jain Balvally, founders of the award-winning architecture and interior design practice Studio Osmosis, Mr. Ronak Sutaria, CEO, Respirer Living Sciences, Mr. Rishiraj Sethi, Director, Aura Art Development Pvt Ltd and co-founder of Aura Art, Dilip Ranade, Distinguished Indian artist and former Senior Curator at Mumbai’s CSMVS, Prakash Bal Joshi, Renowned Artist and Author- Shirley Singh, Mumbai