New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- At a lecture at Stanford University, US, during India Dialog 2024, Veer Munshi said, "I identify as a Kashmiri artist in India... As much as my art has explored pain and violence because of my own displacement, it also explores the value and strength of art as a collective sphere."

Munshi is holding his first solo show, Healing Wounds, in the US at Aicon Gallery in New York. "I call it Healing Wounds because it is in continuation of what I have been doing with reference to Kashmir: political migration, displacement, archiving the material time and again. What is new is the materials. This particular body of work has come from my Shrapnel series (2010). Those were the fragments which I have seen and experienced on vis...