2015

Abandon

In the end, it is about residue and the evidence of what remains. A postcard sent home that perhaps never reaches; a discarded glove that eerily indicates signs of life and an apocalyptic landscape anticipating a haunting future suffused with smoke and ash. How is an intervention possible when time has run out? Can one subtract from experiences in order to save time? When location is a labyrinthine entity, the act of imaging presents a radical doubt. What is a utopia but bereft of reality; what is displacement, but a return to centre? 

Abandon, a photography exercise featuring the works of Philippe Calia, Uzma Mohsin and Ronny Sen – a conversation with Rahaab Allana.

Exhibited as part of a group show organised by the Gujral Foundation, New Delhi, 2015. Also exhibited as part of, 'Ellipsis: Between Word & Image', at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, 2019