Aakshat Sinha previews the forthcoming show 'Inheritance of Light, Geographies of Loss' that brings together more than forty artists working across painting, textiles, glass, photography, fashion, sculpture, architecture, video, and artificial intelligence to examine how light has travelled between India and the Netherlands, from the era of Mughal miniatures and Dutch Golden Age painting to today’s digital and globalised world.

What unites these regions is not uniform style but a shared urgency to institutionalize impermanence. The transition from spontaneous street art to sustained arts infrastructure marks a profound shift in the politics of cultural production across the Global South. The Fearless Art Foundation, through initiatives like Art of Liberation, embodies this transition. By bridging grassroots movements with museums, archives, and pedagogy, it reframes protest as a long-term, interg