After a six-year hiatus, India will return to the Venice Biennale next month, with five contemporary Indian artists: Sumakshi Singh, Alwar Balasubramaniam, Ranjani Shettar, Asim Waqif, and Skarma Sonam Tashi.

“In response to the central theme set by Koyo Kouoh: ‘In Minor Keys’,” says art historian and curator Amin Jaffer, “the India Pavilion is titled ‘Geographies of Distance: remembering home’. The concept reflects my long-standing interest in home as a place transformed by changes in lifestyle, technology and environment.”

Jaffer notes that the project is reflected in the work of Sumakshi Singh, who painstakingly re-created in thread and embroidery her demolished family house in Delhi .…