We are pleased to announce that Amol K. Patil will be exhibiting his work at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh from 7 March to 30 May 2026 as part of one of four exhibitions collectively titled 'The dead dont go until we do'.
These four exhibitions are concerned with how we remember those who have gone before us. They channel the strength of family, friends and communities to help recover those lost, erased or excluded: powerful guides for how we might recover the subtle, sometimes beautiful and everyday aspects of being.
Each artist has had to find a way to navigate the past. They work to overcome the stereotyping of their communities and the way they have been portrayed as “other”. They trace the invisibility of those cast out from society, or the simple absence of people in archives and written histories. This goes hand-in-hand with their need to draw strength from previous generations, ancestors and even non-human entities: to become fully present, to find the right words and the courage to become agents for positive change. The dead don’t go until we do shows how the labours, lives and loves of those who have gone before can enable the resilience of those living today.
Amol K Patil’s practice is guided by his grandfather and father, who used their poetry and playwriting to challenge British colonial rule, protest the caste system and give voice to those who are assigned by birth to profound poverty. Patil’s new installation will evoke the subterranean darkness of the sewers, mines or dirt that surround a life of obscurity. Who is Invited to the City? poetically traces those who moved to the city of Mumbai with a dream of a better life, only to become outcasts.
