Majha

majha, 2021
/माझा mine मेरा/
Audio-visual mix media installation by Gaurav Ogale x Farah Mulla © Sarmaya Arts Foundation 
 
As part of our show Shifting Selves, Sarmaya commissioned their first-ever audio-visual art installation. ‘majha’ is an atmospheric, nostalgic, deeply felt work of art created in a collaboration between visual artist Gaurav Ogale and sound artist Farah Mulla. 

“When Pavitra Rajaram [Brand custodian at Sarmaya] and Paul Abraham [Founder at Sarmaya] commissioned this piece to Farah and I, I wanted to retain the sensitivity and narrative of the show, which talks about identity, migration and transfer across genres. I wanted to delve into the curiosity that has stayed with me since childhood – about inheritance and ownership. So, I wrote down very specific memories, starting with my childhood at my grandparent’s home in Ogalewadi and then moving cities and living out of boxes in Bombay and Poona. The windows from these spaces were always my refuge, and I would wonder what it was that I really owned as I transitioned spaces. Is it the memories one makes in the spaces or what we see from and beyond our windows that mark our invisible and fluid emotional borders?”