Last year in March, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, was hosting Don’t Ask Me about Colour, a large-scale retrospective of the late artist Mehlli Gobhai, when the world shut down. Naturally, curators Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania were disappointed; they had put in more than three years of work into the show. Over a year on, today, Fort-based Chemould Prescott Road will be reopening its doors after four months with Mehlli Gobhai: Epiphanies, an edited extract of Don’t Ask Me about Colour.

“Nancy, Shireen Gandhy [creative director, Chemould Prescott Road] and I were committed to revisiting the show, and presenting it again, in a new avatar,” shares Hoskote. The exhibition highlights breakthrough moments in the artist’s practice. Adajania notes that they’ve approached and designed Epiphanies as a museum-level exhibition presented in a gallery. “Viewers are encouraged to savour Gobhai’s works while also referring to the wall texts for biographical and art-historical contexts,” Adajania shares.