Text by Zaral Shah.
Photographed by Joshua Navalkar
Taking inspiration from memories and experiences that span two decades, Gaurav Ogale’s audio-visual mixed media piece majha portrays the world as seen by the artist from the many windows that have been his refuge over the years as he moved from city to city. Co-created with sound artist Farah Mulla, this piece was born as a response to the broader theme of the show Shifting Selves: Between meaning, mythology and mirage, curated by the Sarmaya Arts Foundation.
Ogale’s work is often about evoking nostalgia and presenting a visual documentation of our times: “My journals have been my confidants over the years because they have travelled with me, been with me as bystanders. I have been recording conversations, recipes, spaces and people in these journals, and they unconsciously started becoming a repository of my…