The Ajaib Ghar Archive, Philippe Calia — Arles
3 Juillet 2023 — 24 septembre 2023

Collaboration avec le photographe Philippe Calia pour son projet The Ajaib Ghar Archive. Participation à la conception du dispositif de présentation de la série photographique exposée notamment aux rencontres photographiques d’Arles.

The Ajaib Ghar Archive, Philippe Calia — Arles
July 3^rd — Sept 24^th 2023

Collaboration with the photographer Philippe Calia for his project The Ajaib Ghar Archive. Participation in the design of the display for the photographic series presented at Rencontres-Arles photography festival, France

How does memory, and its residue, shape our ways of seeing? Philippe Calia contemplates this question in his ongoing research on museum spaces. Through an archive that comprises images taken in exhibition galleries and those of comments found in visitors’ books, in museums across India, Calia draws attention to the constructs of the post-colonial institution, and its impact on our perception of art, artefact, and ideas. In exploring the subjectivity inherent to the relationship between the spectator and the image, The Ajaib Ghar Archive is as much a comment on the authority a museum wields in moderating this dynamic as it is on the photograph’s potential to elicit a multiplicity of meanings. 

Tanvi Mishra

photos Philippe Calia