SEVEN ART LIMITED
M-44/2, Souterrain,M Block Market, Greater Kailash II
March 30–May 12
Rajorshi Ghosh, Rooms by the Sea #1, 2007–12, projector, DVD player, speakers, acrylic, light-resistive tape, dimensions variable.
Upon entry, there is an overwhelming sense of space:
Rajorshi Ghosh’s
four architectural installations in this show are spare, inviting
viewers to project their imaginations, at high tide, onto the rigid
mathematics of a room. “Rooms by the Sea” reconstructs the essential
workings of the psyche through a seascape. The source of this idea is in
a wall text that quotes
Salman Rushdie’s
1991 speech at Columbia University, in the wake of the fatwa issued
against him: “I’ve lived in that messy ocean all my life. I’ve fished in
it for my art. This turbulent sea . . . is the sea by which I was born
and which I carry with me wherever I go.” Ghosh elevates architecture to art: His structures are only
habitable in the mind, and his images transcend the rational. The
viewer’s imagination is realigned and renovated, so that upon exit, one
turns the corner with an altered perspective.text
Himali Singh Soin
