TYEB MEHTA Bearing Weight FEATURED EVENTS

Restricted Palettes is a four-part Saturday Family Workshop series that explores how colour behaves through limitation, relationship, and perception. Drawing from TYEB MEHTA’s practice, the series invites families to understand how minimal colour systems can create depth, tension, and emotional intensity.

In this first session, Colour Parallelism and Grayscale, participants explore how colours interact when placed side by side and how their perception shifts through contrast and value. Through guided exercises using grayscale and controlled colour arrangements, families observe how colours can align, intensify, or recede depending on their surroundings. The workshop introduces colour as relational, shaped by proximity, lightness, and spatial placement rather than fixed identity.

Participants create a series of small studies that build sensitivity to subtle variations in value and arrangement. This approach reflects TYEB MEHTA’s use of restricted palettes and sharp contrasts, where carefully structured colour relationships generate intensity and emotional weight.

Designed for children and adults to create together, the workshop encourages shared observation and experimentation, offering an accessible introduction to understanding colour through perception and interaction.

While you’re here, explore KNMA’s ongoing exhibition
TYEB MEHTA Bearing Weight (with the lightness of being)