Fold - Unfold

2019

A fold is the transmutation of formal objects into temporary unities. The new status no longer refers to a spatial mould but to a temporal modulation that implies as much the beginnings of a continuous variation of matter as. A continuous development of form. Everything is the pleating of the world around it, a pleating of matter. Each fold captures a certain metaphysical condition and a change of memory. Like a sheet of paper with infinite folds, a fold within a fold without the paper body ever dissolving.

Newspaper coated with photosensitive chemical is folded into boats and set a sail in monsoon waters in Mumbai. The paper boats react with the milieu and fold them into itself. The fold affects and becomes an expression bringing. Anew form I to being in accordance with vectors of different scales and speeds - sun, rain, wind, cars, waste etc. Some get lost, while others survive, pointing to a negotiation in blue-printing. The shades of blue speak back analogically of a presence or absence while building relationships inadvertently. The discoveries add to a sense of construction and ruination of a landscape where images are made through degradation by monsoon water, presenting interesting possibilities through porosity, transparency, reflection and layering. The now is imprinted onto the past, events above and under the fold become simultaneous. Each print is a story, an embodiment of material changes, a landscape. We navigate the archives as we do the landscape.

Maps represent fair-weather landscapes that hold time and fix them. This is a visual convergence between image-making and geographical space formed by monsoon water in foul-weather, constructing a cartography through geographic imagination. It moves away from a privileged view of a preceding territory above a surface, to a depth of field of folds exposed and developed by light and water. The Deleuzian fold is a form of connection that creates unlimited finity. The unfold follows one fold to the next.

In collaboration with David Kendall 2019