Takpa Gallery is presenting ‘Khorlo / Wheel’, a group exhibition featuring four Tibetan diaspora artists from India: Choenyi Dolma, Tashi Druketsang, Tashi Nyima, and Tenzin Melak. The exhibit is on view until May 2, 2026.

Curated by Tenzin Gyurmey, the title, ‘Khorlo’ translates to the Tibetan word for ‘wheel’, which evokes persistent cyclical movement, an endless turning where beginnings and endings dissolve into continuity. The wheel also suggests interdependence, a structure in which each element exists in relation to others.

In this sense, the title becomes both a philosophical symbol and a poetic metaphor for the shifting nature of identity. Rather than presenting a fixed definition of identity, the works in Khorlo reveal it as fluid, relational, and continually unfolding.

Bringing together two women and two men, the exhibit explores how individual artistic practices engage with questions of selfhood amid inherited histories, beliefs, and cultural memory. Some artists reflect on religious philosophy inherited through family and community, reconsidered through lived experience. Others turn to personal memory, transforming everyday stories through sewing, embroidery, and painting.

Abstraction, in contrast, becomes a space to trace connections between past and present selves, while another practice explores the unseen inner life, where identity appears fluid, carried, and unresolved.

“Like a wheel in motion, identity never settles into a final form; it turns through memory, experience and encounter, endlessly reshaping the space between past inheritance and the unfolding present,” writes curator Gyurmey in the curatorial note.

Though the artists’ works explore various visual languages, they share a common inquiry: how do we understand who we are while carrying the weight of the past into the present?

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KHORLO / WHEEL

When: Until May 2, 2026

Where: Takpa Gallery, Kathmandu

Time: 11:00 am to 7:00 pm

Entry: Free