Speculations from the Field
By Rohini Devasher
Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, and co-curated by Himanshu Kadam
Kamalnayan Bajaj Special Exhibitions Gallery
The artist's field explores terrestrial sites as well as deep space, deep time as the locus of both the human imagination and its extraordinary ambition. In the artist's rendering an inert object takes on a disturbingly sensual form. Her interest in recording and mapping the skies, sea forts, observatories and other such scientific centres and methodologies recall the early history of the Museum which was a similar site for such mappings. She has worked with the Museum collection to unpack its implications as a site of collection and a form of collective perception.
Rohini has worked with the Museum's rarely seen collection of natural history objects and artefacts, a remnant of the times when it was the erstwhile Government Central Museum with the emphasis on natural history and geology.
