India's pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale asks a question that resonates far beyond the art world: what is home? Titled Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home, the exhibition interprets the Biennale's theme, In Minor Keys, through the vast diversity of India, offering a layered reading of home in a country where time and space are measured on an enormous scale.

Curated by Amin Jaffer, the pavilion brings together five artists whose works span the country, from the sun-baked earth of Tamil Nadu in the south to the stepped architecture of Ladakh in the north, from houses at the foot of the Himalayas to the ghost of a Delhi long succumbing to bulldozers. Enormous flowers hang from the ceiling, standing in for gardens and their place in Indian private, public and sacred life, while a mesh of bamboo canes evokes a widespread construction technique in the east and symbolises new cities rising over older urban landscapes.

Among the works on show are Skarma Sonam Tashi's Echoes of Home from 2026 and Sumakshi Singh's Permanent Address, also from 2026, made from silk, cotton and nylon thread stretched on steel frames. Together they trace experiences of place, memory, distance and belonging.

Jaffer describes the pavilion as a reflection on identity and belonging in a period of accelerated change, proposing that home is not solely a physical place but a condition that we carry with us. The show's quiet, minor-key register stands in deliberate contrast to the spectacle often associated with national pavilions, inviting contemplation rather than display.