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How images, music and material keep memories alive

What does a woman rolling a giant concrete slab over an open land have to do with a woman sitting at a table with multiple versions of herself — folding and refolding a napkin in different ways? Through film, art installations, recorded music and a non-formal performance, Nimi led the audience through the journey of making this layered work even while showcasing it. Of the art installations, the ‘Library of the Lost,’ with its neatly bottled memories and the photo booth, with its layered visual and aural inputs, emerged as favourites. She had started writing it as a play but soon realised that she wanted “to simply tell the story of a daughter struggling to remember all the things her mother forgot.” The more she remembered, the more “facts blurred” and she became aware of a “dramatic reconstruction.” Her intent was to navigate the “the obscure landscapes of loss and memory through photographs, in objects, on film, and as songs and sounds,” she says. For her it is, “an exploration about what we remember and why and what we forget and how.” Having been a producer of theatre and performance work through Sandbox Collective that she co-founded, some creative aspects of this project felt known while others, like the new media parts, she found challenging.

The Hindu
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