Salt Lines is the first solo exhibition in India by artist duo Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser). The show excavates the lost archive of the Inland Customs Line, 4,000-km barrier – much of it a living hedge – built under the East India Company and the British Raj to enforce the Empire’s oppressive salt tax. It treats the border as a poetic and political space, a partition that begets a series of divisions and perforations that continue to fray, tear and rip into our present.

Shown within a museum originally established in 1857 as the Victoria & Albert Museum by the British, Salt Lines reflects on the double-sided nature of the Inland Customs Line as both an architecture of extraction and a site of resistance.

Salt Lines by Hylozoic/Desires
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
6 December 2025 – 15 February 2026

This exhibition is presented by Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, in collaboration with RMZ Foundation and India Art Fair with curatorial advisor Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, supported by Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.