At Samukha Gallery Bengaluru,India till 22nd February 2014
Curated by Lina Vincent Sunish
Known Unknowns
A3 Size
Hand crafted archival print on
Hahnemuhle German 300 gsm photo rag
Photographs from family albums and junk markets.
Edition of 50
Hidden
behind the layers of memory,
Children
sing songs and dissolve in waves of laughter.
Laughter
travelling through the swaying eucalyptus trees,
Making
it’s melody sweet and memorable.
In
a blink of an eye they turn into fading pages.
Pages
so brittle that a mere touch disintegrates it into a puff of dust.
Their
names just peep through the scratches of tombstones.
They
play hide and seek with places and times in universe.
They
are now me , they are now you.
Reflecting
the similar images back and forth on a non-stop loop.
Clinging
to the crumbling walls and chipping surfaces,
Now
described in sizes, ink and paper quality.
Reflection
of reality encapsulated in the corner of the eye,
Controlling
again light and dark with rapid eye movement.
Making
the once seen, still visible and present.
Standing
close and existing next in line,
Silently
slipping through the door cracks,
To
smell the memory of the neighboring image.
In
continuation to the game of hide and seek,
In
the everyday fabric of the home
They
are there still waiting in hiding,
It’s
only that we fail to find them.
- Sabrina Osborne 2014
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