Method Presents “Home?” at ARCOmadrid 2026 Exploring Fragile Sanctuaries

Method Participates in ARCOmadrid’s Opening Section

For its participation in the Opening section of ARCOmadrid 2026, Method presents Home?, a curated group exhibition featuring works by Sajid Wajid Shaikh, Shamir Iqtidar, Ammama Malik, and Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri. The presentation will be on view from March 4th – 8th, 2026 at IFEMA MADRID, Spain, marking another significant international engagement for the Mumbai and New Delhi-based gallery.

 

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Interrogating the Idea of Home

Home? explores the universal yet fragile promise of home—not simply as architecture, but as a site of safety, intimacy, and identity under threat. Through sculpture, painting, and installation, the booth transforms into a porous and contested space. The exhibition questions how private lives endure pressures of public scrutiny, political erasure, and cultural conservatism.

Sajid Wajid Shaikh’s Fractured Concrete Wall

At the centre of the presentation is a new installation by Sajid Wajid Shaikh, who deconstructs the traditional concrete grill—an architectural element designed for privacy and protection. Reduced to fractured geometry and pierced with soft white balloons, the work challenges notions of permanence. Vulnerability emerges not as weakness but as an inevitable force that disrupts structures meant to shield.

Shamir Iqtidar’s Intimate Paintings

Visible through the apertures of Shaikh’s broken wall are Shamir Iqtidar’s paintings, which capture tender and private moments of Pakistani youth. Acts of affection that rarely unfold freely in public are rendered with quiet sensitivity. Viewed through the fractured grill, the act of looking becomes uneasy, echoing themes of surveillance and social concealment.

Ammama Malik’s Veiled Presence

Positioned behind the lattice is a veiled female figure by Ammama Malik. Her deliberate placement reflects how women are often relegated to the margins in conservative environments. The figure embodies dual meanings—hiddenness as constraint and hiddenness as resistance, revealing how invisibility can also function as a form of self-preservation.

Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri’s Material Archives

Completing the exhibition are sculptural works by Syed Ali Sarvat Jafri, constructed from 17th-century lakhori bricks salvaged from demolished sites in Faizabad. These fragments serve as material archives, carrying histories of place and memory. In the context of political transformation and erasure, they stand as physical testaments to a past that resists disappearance.

Event at a Glance

Takeaway

Together, the four artists construct a “home” that is unstable, intimate, and deeply contested. Home? becomes a meditation on shelter in a world where safety is fragile and identity remains under negotiation. Through tenderness, material memory, and acts of quiet defiance, the exhibition affirms survival as both emotional and political persistence.