FEATURE

As you walk towards School of Arts and Aesthetics ( SAA) department in the Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU), you begin to hear a conversation. It sounds like people blaming each other. You don’t encounter any argument as you reach the department but a transistor, which is placed on a table outside— the source of the sounds. The exhibition, Love in the times of Choleric Capital is going on here. This audio work titled YOUME&MEYOU is by artist Vishal K. Dar. Explaining about the artwork, he says, “It appears as if we are eavesdropping on a telephonic conversation between two lovers who are breaking up. The couple, who seems to be native Kashmiris, dramatically shifts between strangeness and delirium in this conversation. We are unable to posit if what we are listening to is an actual account or make-belief. The audio work is 3min 33seconds.”

Crossing the main gate, as you begin to climb the stairs towards the exhibition, you see the projection of the late actress and dancer Zohra Sehgal reciting a poem. “Mujh se pehli si