“Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya test the limits of the moving image. They reinvent the role it plays in recording social histories. They are the Desire Machine Collective based in Guwahati, Assam, and the centrepiece of Noise Life, their first solo show in Mumbai, mines the various complexities of image construction besides telling a dark story about mental illness. In the 32-minute video projected on a wall, mental illness is personal torment as well as metaphor for an oppressed society and a decaying geography…”
