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Dilip-Chobisa

Architectonics of the Everyday: Monuments and Memory by Dilip Chobisa

Architectonics of the Everyday: Monuments and Memory by Dilip Chobisa

July 12, 2024 – August 12, 2024


Artworks in Exhibition


“The space in which we live, which draws us out of ourselves, in which the erosion of our lives, our time and our history occurs, the space that claws and gnaws at us, is also, in itself, a heterogeneous space.”

– Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias, Michel Foucault

The suite of works that are on view in Dilip Chobisa’s show “Architectonics of the Everyday: Monuments and Memory” are strangely unpeopled. Yet, all these stunning works represent built environments — the structures found in small town spaces, the walls and doors, the grills and gates, even shrubs and trees that grow beyond parapets, in spite of a resolute paving of paths and grounds. These structures are rarely presented to the viewer in some sort of fullness and completion; instead, we get the interplay of the built with space and light, partial and obscured sites that introduce the social in silent and unexpected ways.

The preponderance of walls that cut through a landscape, that separate a neighbour from another, that insulate the palace from a people, and a religion from another, articulate stories of space that claw and gnaw at us. The landscapes seem to be telling us a story of nature, too. The tender, painstaking renditions of common and hardy bushes and trees that are prohibited from fenced off areas but are still ubiquitously present everywhere offer, quietly, a fluid map of interstices that lie between the natural and the social.

The heterogenous spaces that Chobisa has fashioned here are surely homage to the people who take an innocent pride in homely monuments that could be the crowning achievement of their lives, in the quirks and curves with which they modulate the rigid geometries of their constructions. Yet, it is also a lament about separations and partitions that haunt the everyday and steep in memory.

Deeptha Achar


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