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Dear Arte

Documentary · Phoenix Palladium, Mumbai · 2026

An exhibition designed by Dear Arte for Phoenix Palladium, about people and animals living side by side. I tried to capture the quiet beauty of the deer at its heart, and how people slowly became comfortable around them.

Visitors outside the pink exhibit pavilion in the mall atrium — The pavilion

A pink archway beneath an installation of cherry blossom branches — Blossom arch

A deer sculpture in a pink room as visitors pass behind it, blurred — The deer

A deer sculpture grazing on a mossy mound in a pink room, a fawn behind it — Grazing

Sheer pink fabric framing deer sculptures and a visitor crouched beside them — Through the veil

A fawn sculpture curled up asleep on the moss, glimpsed through pink fabric — Asleep

Close view of a fawn sculpture’s face in soft pink light — Fawn

A stag sculpture with tall antlers lowering its head to the moss — Antlers

A fawn sculpture with its ears raised behind a blur of pink fabric — Ears up

A deer sculpture’s eye and fur up close, sheer fabric in the foreground — Close in

A small fawn sculpture on a mossy ridge, seen past pink fabric — Across the moss

A fawn sculpture standing on a mossy ridge beside a branch of antler — On the ridge

A fawn sculpture watching from the top of a mossy mound — Watching

A stag’s antler curving up against bright white light — Antler

Deer sculptures resting together on the moss — Resting

A visitor’s hand resting on a fawn sculpture’s head — A gentle hand

A hand stroking the head of a fawn sculpture in pink light — Stroking

A father lifting his daughter to reach a fawn sculpture — Lifted up

A girl in red reaching out to a fawn as her father takes a photo — First touch

A girl in red holding her hand out to a fawn sculpture — Feeding time

A girl in red smiling as she pets a fawn, her father filming behind her — Smile

A girl leaning in close to a fawn sculpture’s nose — Nose to nose

A woman smiling as she reaches toward a stag sculpture, a fawn beside her — Among the deer

A green neon sculpture among sheer glass flowers in a dark room full of visitors — Neon garden

Visitors moving through the dark room beneath the green neon sculpture — In the dark room