Sundaram Tagore Gallery - Conversations

At the heart of Gillman Barracks, Sundaram Tagore Gallery conveys a quiet elegance.

The space, luminous and elegant, highlights a discerning selection of contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography.

It is an international gallery, flawlessly organized yet preserving a rare sense of humanity.

Soft Power, Sundaram Tagore Gallery. It was a very hot day, and the gallery offered a cool and luminous haven.

I had the pleasure of a long conversation with the director, Melanie Taylor, a passionate exchange about curation, scenography, and the soft power of a well-composed exhibition.

She spoke with genuine enthusiasm about Lalla Essaydi, the photographer currently on view, about her personal journey and how she came to photography, and about the meticulous and visionary construction of her work, the narrative thread that runs through her series.

Conversations, Sundaram Tagore Gallery. The art of asserting without breaking, of liberating without erasing, by reinventing cultural codes.

I felt a genuine admiration for this artist - a body of work both delicate and powerful, intimate and liberating, deeply rooted in the history of women and in the places she transforms through her gaze.

A moment of sharing that reminds us why art galleries exist: so that artists can speak to us of culture, of freedom, and of inspiration.