India, June 5 -- There are turtles on the wall of a passage at a hub of malls in Saket. These are not real yet significant enough to direct attention to the rising concerns of environmental degradation, particularly on World Environment Day today. This vibrantly-hued sculpture is a part of the group exhibition, Slow Is The New Urgent, featuring works of 11 artists. Created by artist Manveer Singh, the artwork titled Trail of Turtles, is made using multilayered plastic wrappers, ply boards, nails, and staple pins. "It is an homage to the Olive Ridley turtles, which play a crucial role in balancing the aquatic ecosystem. Unfortunately, many of these are dying from consuming plastic that gets mistaken for jellyfish. The damage we are causing to these is reflective of the damage humans are causing to the environment in general," he shares. Beyond the turtles is a hard-to-miss wall installation of plastic industrial chemical carriers. Titled Dar-Badar, these have been painted by Mohd Intiyaz. "My work features painted figures on industrial plastic water carriers, its heads replaced by empty vessels, representing both a literal and symbolic burden," he shares, adding, "By using industrial plastic carriers as canvases - objects associated with mass consumption and pollution - the piece becomes a visual metaphor for environmental injustice." Explaining how this show is both a poetic provocation and a proposition, curator Avik Debdas informs, "Located in a public skybridge, the exhibition uses its very location as a conceptual framework to draw a connection between the consumer market and environmental degradation... By embedding the works within the architecture of shopping and speed, the exhibition turns art into a tool to critique consumer culture, corporate responsibility, and the aftermath of consumption. It encourages viewers to rethink their place in the loop of consumption and its cost to the environment."...