A few months ago, a very very tiny art exhibition popped onto our feed. We squinted, we zoomed in with two fingers, we recognised it immediately. The art belonged to Aparajita Jain Mahajan, whose work we’ve encountered at scale, in the RISD alumni show, an India Art Fair parallel exhibition in 2020 in Delhi, and on the walls of Vida Heydari Contemporary in Pune, where the artist lives. We’d also very recently heard her speak about her practise online thanks to Art and Wonderment’s Platform which champions independent artists.
The gallery itself was Angelic Kauffman gallery, a micro or miniature white cube which inhabits a 12" tall and deep and 16" wide box with a concrete-look gray floor, run by Elaine Luther, an artist in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Last month, Aparajita showed again with Angelica Kauffman, this time in an outdoor setting, for Terrain Biennial, another artist-run initiative of art in front yards founded by Sabina Ott, in Oak Park, Illinois.
LOVER spoke to Aparajita and Elaine about their inspiring and expansive practises and tiny exhibitions.