Capital Formation, Projections is a series of sixteen images that capture the action of projecting text in public spaces in New Delhi (2019). The works question the creation of hierarchy through architecture as symbols that connote power, methods of contemporary empire-formation by the state, reliance on neo-colonial systems that pervade our daily lives and experience of the city through technology. The gorilla graffiti act of writing with light via projection, albeit transient, is here encapsulated through photography.
The work relates many concerns of my practice back to sites in the city that relate to and layer their historical and present meaning back onto the text. The sites here are as follows:
Pile of bricks in Neeti Bagh: "All roads lead to speculative financial market. All roads lead to hierarchy-tectural structures."
On a police barricade in front of GK 2, M block market, "Let's repeat the definition of an empire."
Rashtrapati Bhavan (government offices today, during colonisation it was built as the Viceroy's house ) "a plaster cast, of a Roman copy, of a Greek ideal, of a local custom"
Red Fort outer wall "is it a tactility, a visibility, a sensibility upon brown skin?"
Fly-over bridge near my home "The familiar, in formation, as familiar information: to return home to recognize it's been exported."
Corner paan/cigarette shop open after-hours "post-Colonial post-Truth post-Language post-Human"
Zebra crossing with a bike going in the opposite direction "Why click "Hide Translation" in the midst of movement"
