At Mumbai’s 47-A gallery, COSMICPUNK opens its doors not as a typical exhibition, but as a portal into another realm. Conceived by Boomranng Studio’s artist duo, Sonal Vasave and Makarand Narkar, this show invites viewers to step into a world shaped by the mysterious Dark Sun, a cosmic force so immense that it fractured civilisations and rewrote the meaning of belief.
Set to run until the end of October, the exhibition collects artefacts that appear to have floated into this world from an alternate universe, a remnant of a civilisation whose highest virtue is curiosity, a world that merges magic and science, where myth and reason are two sides of the same imaginative coin.
Fragments from the Cosmicpunk Universe
Each object in COSMICPUNK has the feeling of being a recovered relic, initiating discovery quietly. The exhibition itself becomes all of these things: paintings, sculpture, and jewellery, alongside textiles that are signifiers of a world that never quite existed. The tension of the experience is neither futurist nor nostalgic but somewhere in between, where time folds back on itself.
The exhibition opens with the emblem of the Dark Sun, the emblem that offers a pivot point for the story that is being told. After, you move through a constellation of rooms, each filled with objects that gesture toward the stories of a people, their rituals, and their conflicts under the influence of the Dark Sun.
Here, curiosity is sacred. Knowledge has no hierarchy. In the Cosmicpunk universe, belief and logic are not in opposition; they coexist, questioning and reshaping each other constantly.
Event At a Glance
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Title | COSMICPUNK: Discovery |
| Designers | Sonal Vasave & Makarand Narkar |
| Studio | Boomranng |
| Venue | 47-A, Khotachi Wadi, Girgaum, Mumbai |
| Dates | October 10 – November 2, 2025 |
| Entry | Free |
| Theme | Indian folklore meets futuristic imagination |
| Highlights | Dark Sun emblem, cosmic art prints, celestial jewellery, High Empress sculpture |
The Questions at the Core
- What happens when a civilisation faces a discovery so vast it changes everything it knows?
- What role does faith play when it divides instead of unites?
- How does the human spirit survive oppression and continue to create?
- And what lies beyond what we can understand or explain?
These questions form the pulse of COSMICPUNK. Some are delicately stitched into the artworks; others are raw and unresolved. The viewer is not given answers, only a quiet push toward the unknown. The exhibition does not aim to preach or decode. Instead, it encourages reflection, asking each visitor to consider how imagination can both destroy and rebuild the world around it.
The Minds Behind the Myth
Sonal Vasave and Makarand Narkar, the creative force behind Boomranng Studio, have built their practice on storytelling. Residing and working in Mumbai, the two artists view the role of art as an examination of human resilience and the transference of emotion into subject matter. COSMICPUNK is their most personal endeavour; the project stemmed from a hybridisation of hope, curiosity toward, and the understanding of what binds us as people across belief systems and time.
The two artists are inspired by aesthetics from across cultures. The work combines aspects of South East Asian ritual, Western symbolism, and Indian mythic motifs in a manner where visuality mediates between past and future, yesterday’s belief and tomorrow’s angst. What emerges is a visual language which somehow balances the universal and the personal.
A World Between Worlds
The work in COSMICPUNK treats myth as not as history, but as being alive, restless, and still being invented. The artefacts might seem like fiction, but they are all engaged with important questions of power, spirituality, and seeking meaning.
In fact, each object in the exhibition feels like a clue to how civilisations rise, fall, and rise again through imagination. The artists remind us always that faith and reason are not enemies, but rather instances of the human urge to explore.
By the time one leaves 47-A, the distinction between art and faith may feel less certain. The world outside seems just a little more fluid, as if the Dark Sun still burns quietly somewhere beyond sight, reshaping the stories we tell ourselves. COSMICPUNK isn’t just an exhibition. It’s a reminder that curiosity itself is an act of creation.
