Lalitpur, Feb. 26 -- Imagine yourself stark naked, and your body will immediately curl up with uneasiness. Even in dreams, when we see ourselves bare, we wake up and think, 'That was weird.' We don't talk about nudity or express it-it makes us feel embarrassed and ashamed.

This is the very notion '20 Shades of Nude' challenges. The exhibition at Mcube Gallery, curated by Kapil Mani Dixit and Manish Lal Shrestha, questions why we think of nudity as something obscene and vulgar, despite it being the natural form. The exhibition promotes both uneasiness and comfort: uneasy to see everything naked and out there, yet comfortable enough to talk about nudity and sexuality, like everything else, because it is natural.

On the gallery's ground fl...