Out of Place is a series of 10 drawings born of a mineralogy project made in collaboration with the Yale Centre for British Arts. The project looks at 10 minerals from the collection of Yale Peabody Museum as objects that have travelled in time as matter - formed by weathering, precipitation, heat and pressure, volcanic eruptions - but also as objects that have traversed our world as migrants. These drawings trace the colonial aspirations, curiosities of those in search of novelty and admiration of nature as forces that continue to move matter. 

This project shape-shifted from being an in-person inquiry to an online exercise due to the first Covid-19 lockdown. Amid the political chaos that was unfurling all around us and the death toll that surged endlessly, curator Chitra Ramalingam and artist Garima Gupta searched for sanity in long, rabbit holes of conversations, heartbreaking discussions about home, belonging, landscapes of memory, movement of people but also of matter and energy and what does the future hold for institutions that are built on the back of controlling, collecting and shifting earth matter.