Manish Nai's 'Form and Void' Opens at Taittinger Gallery Amid Pandemic

Manish Nai's solo exhibition 'Form and Void' opened at Taittinger Gallery in New York's Lower East Side during the COVID-19 pandemic. The show surveys five years of the artist's multidisciplinary practice, featuring sculptures made from jute, cotton, and paper—materials described by organizers as 'decidedly Indian, past and present' but with 'forms that assume the abstract logic of geometry.' Visitors are limited to ten at a time, with temperature checks at the entrance. Nai, born in Mumbai in 1980, presents works that contrast with the surrounding Ludlow Street landscape of shuttered shops and empty storefronts. The exhibition marks a small triumph of normalcy in pandemic-era New York.