Resting Museum is an artist duo of Priyanka D’Souza and Shreyasi Pathak, in India, using rest, queerness and disability as methodology in their art practice and curatorial projects to intervene in art and design history discourse and archives. They are interested in the aesthetics of the incomplete and the performativity of the missing body in disability theory and how they can be used in institutional and infrastructural critique. They look at experiences of isolation of disabled body-minds and the formation of certain ‘publics’ physically and virtually through practices of sitting, resting, and participating together. They travel and think through, with, and around crip and queer time.
Resting Museum has participated in several exhibitions, including the Serendipity Arts Festival '24, a solo, 'Aubade with ______' at Shrine Empire, Delhi, and more.
GROUP & SOLO SHOWS
2024: ‘Walking withoutside History’, for Multiplay curated by Thukral and Tagra, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
2024: ‘Out of Turn’, curated by Adwait Singh at Bikaner House, organised by Modern Art Gallery, New Delhi
2024: ‘Crip’d Ecologies: Unfurling expanded Environments’, group show at Root Division gallery, San Francisco, California
2023: ‘Beholding Relations’, group show by Unit London
2023: ‘Aubade with ______’ solo show at Gallery Shrine Empire, Delhi
2023: ‘Falling Through a Signal’ by -out-of-line- collective at FICA Reading Room, Delhi. Displaying a collaboration between -ool- and Resting Museum
2022: ‘Forestial Flock’, at Gallery Shrine Empire, Delhi
2022: ‘People’s Freedom 75’, Mumbai