New Delhi, July 15 -- Multimedia artist Vibha Galhotra's recent exhibition, Solastalgia: The Weight in the Air, was an enquiry about the surplus of margins. The large-scale installations spanned multifold mediums and two halls at Nature Morte, Mumbai. These articulated the magnitude of environmental degradation wrought by urban development and geopolitical wars. These are also two major factors behind human displacement-to uproot from one's home is to forsake a sense of belonging to the place. The phenomenon of Solastalgia, a term coined by Australian environmentalist Glenn Albrecht, encapsulates this tension, in the absence of the warmth of a home, when faced with irreconcilable environmental changes.

Galhotra's art practice, informed b...