Debris Remembers, 2025
LED Installation
Fries TV - Unser Ebertplatz
Cologne, Germany
The video work ''Debris Remembers'' speculates on ongoing state- led demolitions in India. It delves into the aftermath: looking at debris as the last witness to a violence otherwise masked as bureaucratic routine. It's when architecture becomes a tool of punishment and urban space a site of erasure of marginalised bodies. The video linger on rubbles and residue of domestic spaces, therefore asking: what does the Debris Remember, as machines of demolition quietly redraw the city’s cartography?
In collaboration with Sara Ather & Adarsh Gowda.
Plantation Farms, 2024 - ongoing
Readymade
Cologne, Germany
“Planter’s Chair” is a readymade piece — a low, easy chair with an inclined seat and long arms that extend into leg rests. Its design reflects the function and authority of the plantation owner within the colonial sugarcane plantation system. The extended arms served both as armrests and footrests, as it was common for a servant to remove the plan- tation owners boots while his feet were propped up. The design incorporates domination into the form of the object. These chairs were among a range of stock models exported to homes across the British colonies in India and Sri Lanka. The chair’s circulation into Euro- pean households conceals its origin in the infrastructure of racial capitalism.
The Planter’s Chair stored in Cologne is sourced from Bornheim, near Bonn, Germany.
The Debris Remembers (The Film) , 2025
In India, the bulldozer has become a weaponized tool of statecraft—performing punitive demolitions under the guise of legality. “Bulldozer Justice” targets architecture thereby affecting the bodies marked by caste, religion, and dissent, turning urban space into a terrain of erasure. Through various digital reconstructions, field recordings and interviews with victims, the video ‘’The Debris remembers’’ delves into the aftermath: looking at debris as the last witness to a violence otherwise masked as bureaucratic routine. As the Indian Preamble flutters in the wind, the video asks: what does the rubble remember, as machines of demolition quietly redraw the city’s cartography?
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collectivity begins with HOME, 2023
Video
The One Minutes
Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Early ideas about 'collectivity' take its roots while growing up in an Indian joint family. Sharing food, spaces and lives shape up different notions of collectivity. The one minute video ''Collectivity begins from HOME'' shows a festive happening of bringing the Ganesha deity home in the family Chavan. The digitally raw video shot primarily in the default vertical format suggests its circulatory function. Many such clips are shared instantly on larger family Whatsapp groups which connect distant relatives with the event virtually. The Triptych format binds this collective happening together."
'Collectivity begins from HOME' was published in 'Collective Studies' curated by Gudskul in 2023 and was part of series ‘Passing the Love أضيئوا بالحب قلوبك’ curated by Fehras Publishing Practices.
Landscape in Blue, Yellow and Red, 2022
3d Animated Video
Studio West
Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Artist Sarah Schoderer was invited to the group exhibition ‘Bloom’ at Studio West of the Kunsthalle (Dec 4, 2021 – Jan 9, 2022), she wanted to show not only her paintings on canvas but also something that questioned what painting could become. That’s where our collaboration began. Together, we developed a Video animation called Landschaft in Blau, Gelb und Rot (Land- scape in Blue, Yellow, and Red). Sarah first created and painted a physical model, and then using Photogrammtery I scanned and transformed it into a digital environment. What emerged in the end was a video — a work that no longer stayed within the frame of the painting and canvas, but instead tested how far the language of painting could be expanded.
The video was also graphically installed at
Frankfurter Kunstsäule which is a 360° open-air gallery in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen that transforms a traditional advertising column into a public art space.
