Experimenter presents ٹورک|करवट| Karvat, Bhasha Chakrabarti’s first solo atExperimenter–Colaba, Mumbai and her second solo at the gallery. Bhasha Chakrabarti’s exhibition, Karvat, derives and extends from Ismat Chughtai’s short story,“Lihaaf”, where two women explore desire in the shadows, comfort, and/or safety of the quilt. The protagonist of the story is Begum Jaan’s young, distant relative, at the threshold of adolescence herself, who witnesses and narrates the strange, recurrent, and seemingly violent phenomenon of the quilt rising, swirling and eventually falling flat, fatigued, in the dark of the night. The hisses, sighs, and rustling moans, with the bodies of Begum Jaan and her lover Rabbu finding states of alignment and friction, demonstrate an unrestricted desire made possible by the malleability of the lihaaf.
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