365 Lives

2007

Pigment print on Hahnemuhle photo rag archival Paper

16 x 21 in. /41 x 53 cm, 365 prints (each)

365 Lives is a seismographic record of life in the city; an evidence of wounds sustained in the course of minor and major collisions in a crowded metropolis.From a distance it unfolds like serially arranged abstractions, a seductive sea of colour fields. On close inspection individual frames are revealed to be close shots of dents, bumps and scratches on cars. In time, this assembly of abrasions on vehicles begin to feel like wounds and scars on the human body.This indirect allusion—something inanimate speaking for something live,something near mirroring something far,a part evoking the whole—forms a recurring theme in many of Kallat’s works.