India, Dec. 12 -- There is beauty in shining newness. Creating something from scratch calls for imagination and finesse. But what of the ability to reimagine what already exists? Artists that work with found objects have often drawn new meaning from familiar things: Marcel Duchamp's urinal/Fountain; Vivan Sundaram's Black Gold, created with archaeological discards. In the work of Nandan Ghiya, "lost", "found", "repurpose" and "familiar" acquire unexpected meanings.

The Jaipur-based artist works with photography-related archival material, inspired by his grandfather's work as a studio photographer. So, the works and the images they showcase comment on the cost of labour, displacement and transformation. One installation, Babaji's Haveli (...