In a world of restless scrolling and fleeting glimpses, Sateesh Dingankar invites viewers to slow down, to truly see. His photography exhibition, “Wandering Eye,” hosted at the Jehangir Art Gallery’s Terrace Gallery from October 8 to 14, 2025, is less about spectacle and more about stillness. The show opens on October 8 at 5 p.m., inaugurated by eminent guests, veteran visual artist Prakash Bal Joshi, Dr. Sanjay Bhide (Founder, Convenor and Secretary of TACCI), and Mukesh Parpiani, the legendary photojournalist whose work has chronicled decades of visual history.
If you’ve been craving an exhibition that slows time and reawakens your sense of observation, this article has you covered. “Wandering Eye” by Sateesh Dingankar at Mumbai’s Jehangir Art Gallery isn’t just another photography show, it’s an invitation to linger, to let your gaze rest on the overlooked textures of the everyday.
Artists’s Journey and Vision
Dingankar’s artistic development is a unique one: he is a science graduate who forged a career in banking while simultaneously maintaining a long-standing relationship with the arts. Schooled in the early years by national treasures M. S. Joshi and Prabhakar Kolte, Dingankar developed an eye that straddles the spaces between mediums. His transition from painting to photography is not a chance shift but a continuation of a point of view. For him, both mediums revolve around light: how it reveals, conceals, and converses with texture and time.
Event Details
| Event Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Title | Wandering Eye – A Photography Exhibition by Sateesh Dingankar |
| Venue | Jehangir Art Gallery, Terrace Gallery, 161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001 |
| Dates | October 8 – 14, 2025 |
| Timings | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM |
A Steadfast Presence in Art
Sateesh Dingankar’s involvement in the art world within India has been incremental since 2003. He has exhibited work at notable places such as Birla Academy (Mumbai), Bajaj Art Gallery, and Monalisa Kalagram (Pune), alongside notable online juried exhibitions in Dubai and the United States. His creative footprint also extends into publishing, most notably, a Marathi poetry collection combining thirty original poems with his own paintings and photographs, and his design collaboration for Aflatoon Mumbai, published by Granthali.
The Visual Philosophy
Sateesh’s work possesses the serenity of a painter’s mind, each picture representing a negotiation of shape, emptiness, and an indication of motion. His aesthetic follows the Japanese sensibility of Wabi-Sabi, which appreciates beauty in the flawed and fleeting. To Sateesh, the tattered wall, the shattered mirror, or the sanguine color of a derelict alley are not evidence of decay but rather meditative spaces, visual histories of resilience.
Through this lens:
- The irregular becomes lyrical.
- Decay transforms into quiet revelation.
- The play of light and shadow suggests continuity rather than loss.
- Each image becomes an act of patient witnessing.
For Dingankar, photography is not mere documentation, it is an ongoing conversation with time. He invites viewers to look at the world not as a static surface but as form in action.
Step into the Everlasting Experience
In this age of high definition immediacy, “Wandering Eye” is like an antidote, a slow-art experience that reminds us that looking is an art form. With his disciplined gaze and attention to nuance and imperfection, Dingankar redefines our way of seeing the urban landscape. In our ever visually-emphasized world, his work provides an opportunity to meditate, reminding us that every surface touched by time has an inherent tacit wisdom waiting for the patient eye to see it.
Art lovers, photographers, or simply the curious and observant are once again invited to this conversation of light and texture at Jehangir Art Gallery. Let your own wandering eye take pause a little longer; perhaps it will find itself in a beauty you didn’t anticipate.
