New Delhi, May 14 -- A group exhibition at Art and Charlie, a contemporary space in Bandra, Mumbai, comes just ahead of Pride Month in June. Titled To Make a Home with You, the show curated by Mihir Thakkar brings together five young artists-Aksh Diwan Garg, Deepak Dhiman, Lakshya Bhargava, Namrata Arjun and Zoya Lobo-from diverse backgrounds. The curator and artists identify as queer and their visual reflections in the show stem from deeply personal and lived experiences.

Thakkar, who is making his curatorial debut with the show, would like to break this notion that queerness sits outside of mainstream society. "I want to push back against attempts at 'othering' queer people as a subculture," he adds. "Queers are not different from hete...