Sudarshan Shetty's latest solo exhibition titled Shoonya Ghar (Empty is This House)opened earlier this week at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi. Speaking while installing the exhibition, the artist explained, "the exhibit comprises of an entirely new body of work in various media – film, sculptural installation and photographic images, although in it's essence, it is one work. Envisaged over three years ago, the project was a large scale production that took over 18 months to complete."

The project includes a film that depicts building and construction alongside characters enacting scenes in which drama mobilises conventions of representing birth, death, dance, play, music and violence, in local traditions of story-telling.

New York-based anthropologist and writer Vyjayanthi Rao, who has been closely following Shetty's work over the years, remarks, "The work draws on a poetic work by 12th century poet Gorakhnath, who also influenced his celebrated successor Kabir. These poetic traditions populated their verses with the concrete symbolism of the built world and things within it, with references to nature and the environment as metaphors for the body and its beyond." "The film's conceptual form opens the possibility that these elements can be taken apart and placed in opposition to each other to discover a relation between what is real and what is imagined."

A project at the 20th Bienniale of Sydney from March – June 2016, directed by internationally acclaimed curator Stephanie Rosenthal and the research and execution for the December Kochi Muziris Bienniale will be keeping the artist's year eventful.