Time Tracing Times
The Art of India festival 2022, Helipad Exhibition Centre, Gandhinagar
Project Description
This installation was created using archival material about art and artists shared by the daily newsprint paper, Time Of India, for the ‘The Art of India festival’ 2022 Read More
<strong>Details</strong>
A personal narrative in the form of text panels intervening a public discourse, the video projection, form the 2 visible elements of the installation. I have used text from a recent interview of my parents taken by an NGO in India. In the backdrop of the current tense socio-political environment in India where its far-right government is passing laws that are changing the secular social fabric of India my parents have been interviewed as one of the inter-religious married couples. In the interview, they talk about their individual backgrounds, their marriage, the current situation, and a recent ordinance that has been passed in one state which makes it extremely difficult for inter-religious couples to get married and puts them in a vulnerable situation. Translating the text from Hindi to English I have used the transcript from the interview as the cut-out stencil-like screen, the apparatus of filtration. Digitally recaptured and edited news video footage of harassment cases of couples of inter-religious marriages in India have been used for the video projection. Acting through opposing forces this installation aims to create a space or ethos of accepting multiple truths, embracing ambiguity and differences.