An ode to parallel realities – II
Long durational performance, 2017
Medium: Mung daal – 62 kg, sound (headphones)
Duration: 120 mins
National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
The helm of life – ways that one lives within parallel realities. The performance is an act of story telling, nostalgic recollections of association one draws from past cherish-able moments of affection and warmth. It also presumes and erects juxtaposition of experiences that comment on the bizarreness present within the linear narratives as life lives.
Here lay 62 kg of fragmented memories of warmth, lost time and indignations.
62 kgs of nostalgic associations of picking and cleaning daal, while my mother prepared supper for everyone
62 kg of my mother withering body before she was taken to the Operation Room.
