Sudarshan Shetty

A Breath Held Long Along with the video, assemblages of objects extend these concerns into the spatial register. Material fragments and sculptural objects trace the residues of the recited narrative/s, perhaps transforming passage of time into tangible forms for meditation over a life in the city. The video does not offer ready conclusions but proposes an expanding field of relations- a network of gestures and potential narratives that spill beyond the screen. The objects engage the same negotiation as the voices: a dialogue between coherence and dispersal, reflection and persistence.

‘A Breath Held Long’ ultimately reflects on the conditions of contemporary breath- its rhythm, its politicisation within an urban setting. It considers what it means to hold breath in a city that never ceases to move, to pause within motion without disengaging from it. The work is about listening—listening as resistance, as a fragile and yet an act of being truly alive.

Future Remains …Composed of two salvaged double doors, each adorned with a split brass heart and a split bronze ribcage overlaid onto their aged surfaces, to be displayed leaning on the wall side by side. The juxtaposition of the old, weathered doors with these anatomical elements may create a commentary on the tension between history and a corporeal vitality and an object- human relationship.
A reflection on the passage of time, the remnants we leave behind, and how the past and the present are intertwined in physical objects, much like the body encases a corporeal spirit. Who is asleep? Who is awake?

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