DISPLACEMENTS

Philippe Calia will present two projects he has been developing in Mumbai since 2015. The first, If The House, is a collective but unfinished project that takes a collection of damaged and destroyed family photographs as a departure point to offer a reflection on memory and erasure in the city.

The second, Heptanesia, is a personal project which attempts to practice the city and scrutinise its subconscious through walking and photographing.

He will ponder how the notion of displacement links these two projects, and how they have informed his collaboration with urbz and engagement in the Homegrown Street Project in Sangam Gully, Dharavi.

Philippe Calia (b. 1985, Paris) is a visual artist based in Bangalore who primarily uses photography, video and text to engage with poetics of time and memory. His work has received several awards and has been exhibited in institutions, galleries and festivals across Europe and Asia. In India, he is represented by TARQ (Mumbai). In parallel to his practice, Calia runs Art Objects, a creative studio specialised in the documentation of art and cultural projects.