Video installation titled ‘ lacuna in testimony’ is about attempting to listen to the testimonies and to question whether one can enumerate and describe these events as they remain opaque when one truly seeks to understand them. Since testimonies contain a lacuna, the threshhold of the indistinction between inside and outside, which i see as a connection or a dialogue - interests me a great deal.

the material incorporated is from the footage and stills (shot by the artist), recorded interviews (by the artist) with the people singled out in the ahmedabad riots early last year (2002) along with archival material, from various sources, concerning similar events from india and other parts of the world, as i believe that… “to give a greater human scope, to what a particular race or nation suffered, affiliating those horrors with the similar afflictions of other people, does not mean a loss in historical specificity. But rather it guards against the possibility that a lesson learned about suppression in one place will be forgotten or violated in another place or time.”(edward said: representation of the intellectual)