Collaborative exhibition Sleepwalker Archives conceptualised and co-curated by Karthik Subramanian, Devarati Chakrabarti, and Sujeet George.
The exhibition will open at 5.30 p.m. on 15 May at the exhibition hall on the first floor at the French Institute of Pondicherry. We hope you can join us for the opening. The exhibition will be on view between 10.00 a.m. and 07.00 p.m. everyday from 16 May to 31 May.
This exhibition is a culmination of the work Karthik, Devarati, and Sujeet have done as Project Coordinators of a Foundation Project, implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under their Archives and Museums programme, in collaboration with Institut Français de Pondichery (IFP). This Foundation Project is made possible with support from Tata Trusts, with the corpus interest of an earlier seed grant. The poster and the exhibition have been designed by Mehar Khurana.
Sleepwalker Archives tries to engage with the plenitude of archival material they have encountered at IFP in the form of archival photographs, herbarium specimens, card catalogues, maps, instruments, and a range of miscellanea. In the process, it explores the possibility of animating connections between these objects and the worlds contained in them while reading them joyously and in a spirit of play.
