Khandakar Ohida’s exhibition does more than question the boundaries of art and film; it invokes a re-imagining of memory itself, layered within the shadow of colonialism and personal history. Shaped by a deep awareness of power’s quiet presence in the vernacular lives of rural India, she crafts her narrative around an intimate, internal conflict - the distance between institutional preservation and lived memory. Through Ohida’s lens, we are drawn into the textures of the rural Muslim experience, where personal relics speak louder than neatly framed histories. What emerges is less a critique than an offering—a museum that invites us to dream as much as remember, and to imagine beyond the constraints of the colonial gaze.
November 29, 2024
