Khula Aasman

16 Jan 2025 - 15 Jan 2025

Artist: Seema Kohli

Khula Aasman

16 Jan 2025 - 15 Jan 2025

Artist: Seema Kohli

Khula Aasman

16 Jan 2025 - 15 Jan 2025

Artist: Seema Kohli

Khula Aasman

16 Jan 2025 - 15 Jan 2025

Artist: Seema Kohli

Event excerpt

In this second edition of her ongoing project Seema Kohli continues to exhume her family archives, material inheritance and oral accounts to recreate the memory of her ancestral home in Pind Dadan Khan. The town, presently a part of Jhelum District in Pakistan, lies tantalisingly beyond her reach. Articulating a tenuous link to a home that one may never return to, this project that is deeply personal, nonetheless, reveals the ephemerality of all belonging. The title ‘Khula Aasman’ evokes the illusory yet transcendental horizon that witnesses our labours and guides our dreams. It recalls an exchange that the artist, a young girl at the time, had with her father in their New Rajinder Nagar home where the family eventually came to settle after the Partition.

‘What do you see ahead?’
the father would quiz his daughter to which she’d naively respond ‘Babbi ka ghar’ pointing to her
friend’s home. ‘And what do you see after that?’ the line of enquiry continued, nudging her
imagination forward to the sinuous infinity where the sky and the land dissolved into each other
‘Khula Aasman’ thus upholds the meagre yet momentous hope treasured by a dispossessed heart.

Artists

Seema Kohli

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10:00 am – 5:00 pm

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