While Nasreen Mohamedi’s works have gained worldwide prominence in the past 15 years or so, there hasn’t been a major exhibition of her works in Mumbai since the retrospective organised by her family in 1991, a year after her passing,” recalls Puja Vaish, Director of Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation.

As curator of an ongoing retrospective of Mohamedi’s works and archival material—many exhibited for the first time—Vaish notes that several young artists and people have never seen anything by the artist best known for line-based drawings. “Keeping in mind the museum’s unmatched visibility and vast audience, we hope to bring this seminal artist’s practice into public consciousness,” she says.