Experimenter presents A Winter Summer, Sohrab Hura’s solo opening at the historic Alipore Museum, which marks the India debut of two seminal bodies of work — Snow and The Song of Sparrows in a Hundred Days of Summer. Reflecting on the transition of snow in Kashmir and the scorching summer in Barwani, Madhya Pradesh, the photographs also consider two fundamentally different social, economic, and political landscapes through the unravelling of two extreme seasons. The exhibition will have two iterations and will later travel to Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata. Hura documents Kashmir through the passage of winter in Snow, which occurs in three distinct phases: Chillai Kalan (harsh cold), Chillai Khurd (small cold), and Chillai Bachha (baby cold). Snow registers the progression through these phases. The melting of the snow offers a metaphor for the fraught conditions of the region and a deliberate disruption of the illusion of a ‘paradise’ — where the picturesque gives way to residual markers of conflict and violence. Hura’s gaze as an outsider anchors the images while also underscoring how the complexities in the region demand a deeper introspection.
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