ख़्वाब - ईंट और मिट्टी की चूनाई (Dream - Brick and clay mix)
This photographic performance unearths the home as a space of seeing, contemplating and facing demolition of its reality when exposed to the workings of a state-machinery. The space that I inhabit in this performance is on the grounds of rubbles of a home that was built by my grandparents post-partition. Built from sand and bricks without any cement, the home stood at a government owned space because of which the relevance of a home-memory, a memory-home and the narrative collected; the challenges faced by my family post-partition was not even relegated to the background but was threatened. All that remained then was my vision being blotted by the interiors of an imagined home— unbroken, small yet existing in its form and fervor to create a yearning for a future for me.
Title – ख़्वाब – ईंट और मिट्टी की चूनाई (Dream – Brick and clay mix) Medium – Photograph
based performance ( PC-karan kanojia) Size – 12’’ X 18’ Year-2017 -2021
vikrant kano 