Enactments and Each passing day

9 SEPTEMBER TO 8 DECEMBER

KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART, NOIDA

This exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum in Noida explored the boundaries of videography, taking on the idea of time. Shilpa Gupta’s frenetic ceiling projections of well-known architectural structures distorted kaleidoscopically, before morphing into abstract geometrical shapes. In contrast, Sonia Khurana’s Surreal Pond 1- Epiphany contained an image of an unsettling, absolutely still pond with fog building and rising over it. But the ultimate exploration of time in the exhibit was also the most interesting manipulation of space. Gigi Scaria’s Against Gravity presented six monitors fixed onto the faces of a hexagonal prism. All six screens look identical at first—stills of a desolate, black-and-white landscape that looked like they were from early-twentieth-century India. Then, a truck drives around the prism, across all but one screen, rarely at first but then with increasing frequency until it disappears between screens and the piece returns its original a visual silence.

~ Andrew Fedorov