SLOW is the New Urgent is the third presentation at the KNMA Art Pssage which was conceived as an immersive passage through one of the city’s busiest commercial spaces at Jan 2025

 the exhibition invites visitors to slow down, observe, and reflect on the conditions shaping contemporary life. Moving through the corridor, audiences encounter works that respond to consumerism, ecological imbalance, mediated desire, and systems of digital surveillance that increasingly structure everyday experience.

A trail of turtles guides visitors through shifting visual environments populated by muted birds, synthetic rivers, flickering television screens, and fragmented markers of urban excess. Together, these works create a gradual movement away from sensory overload towards moments of pause and introspection, encouraging what may be described as “slow looking.”

Featuring works by Anshu Jakhar, C.K. Rajan, Hifzul Kabeer, K.M. Madhusudanan, Manveer Singh, Mohd. Intiyaz, Pallavi Singh, Schön Mendes, Slipa Sheeja, Sonam Chaturvedi, and Tahsin Akhtar, the exhibition reflects on how urgency is manufactured and circulated within contemporary visual culture.

The installation also foregrounds the omnipresence of surveillance technologies and algorithmic systems that continuously record, shape, and redirect human attention. Through these artistic interventions, Slow Is The New Urgent reflects on how attention itself has become a contested space within increasingly mediated environments.

Situated within a public commercial setting, the exhibition transforms a transitional space into a site for contemplation, encouraging visitors to encounter art unexpectedly within the rhythms of everyday movement.