Points to View

Sangita Maity’s work on migrant labourers. (Source: Express photos)

Sanket Jadia makes a conscious effort to look around for visible and non-visible politics involved in constructing an identity. His discussion pad is the white table in a tiny room at Khoj Studios. Full of objects — from hand mushrooming in one corner to an over turned bottle and a polybag —  all in white cement, the 23-year-old Delhi-based artist says, “I want to alter the perspective of viewing familiar images.”

Jadia has spent the last four weeks at Khoj as part of Peers residency, the 11th edition of the annual education and outreach residency programme. “We give young artists the tools and space to experiment and also give them a forum for interaction with established practicing artists and creative practitioners,” says Pooja Sood, Director of Khoj.

The culminating exhibition that began on June 19 presents the experiences of the six participants. If, in his mixed-media installation Diptej Vernekar discusses how every object in the tiny passages of maze-like structures in Khirki Village has become a metaphor for the area, then, Amshu MS has also worked with footage shot in the area in his video installation.

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Kolkata-based Sangita Maity had four migrant labourers in the area creating works with her. A wall has their photographs alongside their documented experiences, from one labourer writing a letter to his family to another creating an incomplete mud hut.

The exhibition is on at Khoj Studios, till June 22.
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