“He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time.

Those memories whose function had been to leave behind nothing but memories.”

— Chris Marker, Sans Soleil 

The video work explores the (im)possibility of reconstructing a site, which only exists in memory, through the medium of photography. Using inherited and found materials from the artist’s immediate family home, the video work attempts to stage a mimesis of the artist’s maternal grandfather’s house in Delhi, a site which no longer exists, nor has any surviving photographic evidence of it. Shot during lockdown, the piece responds to spatio-temporal limitations, interrogating the artist’s childhood memories of when she had visited the site in 2001. The fragmented narrative essay spoken simultaneously to the lucid images, at times correspond with them and at other times dissociates itself completely. This palimpsestuous interplay unravels the tenuous nature of identifying a ‘home’ with objects, which may or may not be grounded in truth, hinting towards the fictive possibilites of photography. Ultimately, the piece embarks on a contemplative mourning, yearning to make sense of cultural figments through images in a suspended and discursive temporality.