13 JULY 2018 TO 23 AUGUST 2018 | EXHIBITION

What does a forest mean to us today? Who do we see as occupying forests? What images do we see?

From our present positionalities, the question of access is primary the loss begins at an empty imagination. The forest is a distant reality that we may unfold only as an activation. Our insertions only produce mirages of the possibilities that lie within the forest that too framed by our present location, the spectrum between the grotesque and the magical both are abbreviated At this juncture, the defeating articulations of a forest are unimpressive the problems of representation are varied and rampant Who speaks the forest?

Plantations are not substitutes for forests, for the fireflies or its mineral nor its people, if so then does an urban inhabitation oscillate between quilt and consciousness or does it move beyond the exhibition?

The inherent contradictions between a dystopic abundance of the urban and utopic minimalism of the forest are beyond the binary. it is at the crux of where humanity ceases to imagine.

Imagining a Forest is an exhibition that attempts to locate our fragile urbanity foregrounded by the vastness of the forest’s elemental politics and its people and to explore the category of the forest and the politics that surround it from an urban perspective.

Curated By: V. Divakar & Avni Sethi

Artists:

Anupam Roy

Aruna Chandrasekhar

Chinmoyi Patel

Faiza Khan

Gipin Varghese

KT Mathai

Paryavaran Mitr

Raju Patel

Rashmi Mala Devi

R. Magesh

Sarika Mehta

Video Republic

Vyom Mehta

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES