You Are Now
June 18, 2022 - Feb. 19, 2023
Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
as part of
Proposals for a Memorial to Partition
Curated by Murtaza Vali
CAMP draws a series of lines between this and that
exhibition. Not only between country A and country
B, or horizontally between peoples or on the plane
of "cultural exchanges" or "extra-national space",
but vertically, or diagonally, reaching out to an
actual place, to its actual power and presence.
For South Asia, it is important that our ideas do
not operate at the level of the imaginary, or
symbolic, but enter a psychogeographic reality,
a kind of "touching”.
The work is made of 9 on-site recordings of the
audio guide to the Partition Museum in Amritsar,
now in a spatial, ghostly, or open relation to
works in this show. Does one entering the other
imply the other way around? Not necessarily.
But it may produce a feeling of cohabitation: on a
plane of felt possibility and not impossibility.
