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The Museum of Art & Photography's inaugural exhibition, Visible/Invisible: Representations of Women in Art Through the MAP Collection, draws from the various thematic threads of the collection, to highlight questions and frameworks in order to broaden the arguments within feminist discourse. Showcasing almost a hundred and thirty artworks, the publication is divided into four sections, following the exhibition narratives: Goddess and Mortal, Sexuality and Desire, Power and Violence and Struggle and Resistance. Each section is contextually introduced by laying out broader arguments surrounding the sections, followed by artwork images and descriptions which propose arguments and counter-arguments. In addition, the publication contains quotations, excerpts and poems that provide diverging vantage points for the artworks. An introductory essay by MAP’s director, Kamini Sawhney, lays out the broader dialectics of this exhibition. Essays by Shukla Sawant, Vijeta Kumar and Arushi Vats extend the ideas and concepts presented within. Shukla Sawant in her essay ruminates on the figure of the woman as a muse, and women working within the art-world, in pre-independent India. Vijeta Kumar writes about what it means for a Dalit person to enter the arts, and Arushi Vats’ essay looks at how women come together, and organise themselves by thinking through frameworks of seriality and multitudes.