Invoking what has long been silenced

Sometimes, repetition becomes a language in itself. A word spoken once may pass unnoticed, but spoken again and again, it begins to gather weight—becoming rhythm, then prayer. To walk into Sara Guberti’s ‘Invocation of the Goddesses’ at Siddhartha Art Gallery is to enter that space of repetition: of symbols, of bodies and of voices that refuse to remain unheard. Italian artist Sara Guberti’s solo exhibition, inaugurated at Baber Mahal Revisited, unfolds as both a visual and spiritual inquiry into the feminine—its erasure, its endurance and its urgent reawakening. Working across painting and collage, and using acrylic on canvas, Guberti lifts her pieces off the surface. With a restrained yet striking palette of red, black and white, she constructs an environment that is at once reflective and confrontational. “Today we are in a very difficult situation,” Guberti says. “Most of the energy around us is male energy. This exhibition is an invocation to the goddesses because we need to, as women, recognise our power, our choice, and our responsibility.” Born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1971, Guberti has long rooted her practice in spirituality and symbolism, drawing connections between belief systems across cultures. In ‘Invocation of the Goddesses,’ these threads converge, forming a visual language that is intentionally limitless. Hindu deities appear alongside Catholic iconography. Sanskrit script appears alongside Italian text. “This concept is seen around the world,” Guberti expla