In 2013, Italian luxury fashion house, Zegna, through its worldwide art initiative—ZegnArt—invited 20 artists from India to propose a work for the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum (BDL) in Byculla. The idea was to explore the possibilities of how a public space could be experienced. After multiple rounds, Mumbai-based Reena Kallat's proposal made the final cut. Her sculpture, when it was installed in 2013, was an oversized web formed by 400 rubber stamps that wove the history of the city on to the museum's front facade. Each stamp, made from fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) bore the colonial name of a Mumbai street that had been replaced by an indigenous one. The work involved the construction of a scaffolding and 45 people to hoist it on to the facade of the main museum building, a 45x55 feet structure. The process that also involved structural engineers who helped identify load-bearing points on the 148-year-old building, took close to 10 days. It took half a week for the entire piece to be brought down.'

Kallat's sculpture, Untitled (Cobweb/Crossings), is now a part of the museum's collection and, as per its agreement with ZegnArt, the museum is to display it from time to time throughout the decade. One of the times the sculpture was exhibited, only a part of it was used since the piece was on display inside the building. When it isn't on display, the piece is packed into storage in BDL's godowns.

Valay Shende's Transit is a life-sized truck made of thousands of shiny metal discs and some 170 dismantlable parts. It has travelled to locations across the world and now sits at Lower Parel's Palladium mall. Pics/Bipin Kokate