What does home actually look like?
Not the address. Not the building.
The feeling.
That's the question quietly taking over the walls of Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai right now.
The exhibition is called Landscapes of Belonging.
It opened on June 26 with a grand unveiling.
And it runs every day, 11am to 7pm, till June 30.
Entry? Completely free. 🎟️
Presented by Madras Art Weekend in collaboration with The Hindu's Made of Chennai initiative, the show pulls together painters, photographers, ceramicists and sculptors.
Each one answers the same prompt — what is home? — in their own language.
And the answers are wildly different.
Yes, that Suhasini.
The actor and filmmaker is debuting her first-ever digital artworks here.
Her subjects?
"There are things we see every day, but we just don't register them," she says.
"I just want people to notice what is around them."
Every artist brings a different doorway into the idea of belonging.
👉 P Saravanan paints in luminous blues and warm ochres — a man reading tarot with a parrot, a Jallikattu scene, a girl cradling her cat.
👉 Neena Makhija captures women in shared spaces, where silence speaks of endurance and companionship sits beside solitude.
👉 Monika Umapathy presses Chennai's landscapes into ceramic — tactile, physical, permanent.
👉 Narayan Lakshman, journalist-turned-artist, channels Zen Buddhism into beaches and morning light. "Everything is ephemeral and passing, yet everything beckons to you."
👉 NS Manoharan paints disappearing Thanjavur — temple streets, paddy fields, village ponds from his Kumbakonam childhood.
👉 And the late T Athiveerapandian, whose wife Susan recalls: "Even a single tree held 10 or 15 shades of green for him."
Walk through it slowly and something shifts.
Home isn't a pin on a map.
It's a temple you pass without looking.
It's the green of one specific tree.
It's a cat in a child's arms.
It's the silence between two women in a kitchen.
It's a collection — of memory, landscape, relationship, light.
⚡ Four days left.
If you're in Chennai, this is the kind of exhibition you regret missing only after it's gone.
That's all for now!
