ख़्वाब – ईंट और मिट्टी की चूनाई (Dream – Brick and Clay Mix)

This photographic performance unearths the home as a space of seeing, contemplating and facing the demolition of its physical reality when exposed to the workings of the state-machinery. The space that I inhabit in this performance is on the grounds of the rubble of a home that was built by my grandparents in the post-Partition period. Built from sand and bricks without the binding element of cement, the home stood on a government-owned land. As a result, the relevance of a ‘home-memory’, a ‘memory-home’, the narratives collected, and the challenges faced by my family post-Partition were not relegated to the background but was even more threatened through the possibility of complete erasure. All that remained then was my