Noa Eshkol to Arp­ita Akhanda: India Art Fair back with more vibrant canvas

The fair is the country's biggest exhibition of contemporary and modern art from South Asia

The human movement – complex, fluid and functional – was a passion and the subject of exploration for Israeli dancer-choreographer Noa Eshkol. The Chamber Dance Group, which she founded in 1954 in Tel Aviv, would perform not to music but only to the steady pulse of the metronome, celebrating the pure movement of the human body. But when the 1973 Arab–Israeli War disrupted those performances, the artist headed out on another journey of creativity and expression – piecing together discarded fabrics as though they were paint to create vibrant, emotive “wall carpets”.

Noa Eshkol created some 750 wall carpets until her