Collisions: A project by Shrine Empire in the studio of architect Richard Parr.

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Arun Dev’s spatio-temporal futurisms of urban architecture will dialogue with Shruti
Mahajan’s approach to spaces is imbued with personal histories and remembered
dimensions of homes left behind. The collision of the temporal disjunctures between
both their practices will hope to generate new meanings in our collective relationship
with built structures. Dialoguing with this presentation will be another trio, Baaraan Ijlal
, Moonis Ijlal and Divya Singh. Baaraan Ijlal’s archival practice has consistently been
preoccupied with the connotations of power and politics. Her work acts as a witness
against the erasure of people and history. Moonis is interested in the psychology of form
and spaces and their impacts on inclusivity and alienation. His aesthetics are informed by the phenomenon of hybridity and evolution found in nature and the impacts of social human evolution on biodiversity. Divya Singh on the other hand is concerned with the poetics of space, especially in the ways that they interact with time, light and darkness
to yield to considerations on isolation and mortality, almost as if the spaces that she
engages with are portals. The skyline in the presented works becomes the interface between built structures and the limitless, undivided sky open to numerous possibilities, hope and the cosmos. This project will also be an experiment in what artistic camaraderie can offer, and how each artist with relatable interests in their practice may enrich each others’ perspectives.