Howareyoufeeling.studio

IN THE STUDIO with

…documenting our process for ongoing work with and

// Even with trust in the room, touch felt confronting. Shame - so deeply woven into our bodies and our culture kept showing up. But with each take, something softened, and what began as an exercise became something necessary.

This piece asks: What happens when we move from witnessing bodies to being within them? How might collective embodiment serve as a tool for repair—not through catharsis, but through the quiet, consistent act of being present with and for one another? In this project, the camera almost felt incidental—just a witness to something deeper unfolding.

Concept: .studio

Movement direction: &

Dancers/ movers:

Alka Sharma
Anjali Mishra
Improper Parmar
Jignesh Gambha
Jina Mishra
Sarth Kalra
Navin Kelamane
Rhona Bose
Nishasmita Talukdar
Tanuj M Nair
Aakash
Dipen
Japika Kaur 45 Madhukar Singh
Roshini Iddya

Photography & Video:
Camera Assistant: Prashant Patil
Hair and Makeup:
Lighting: Raka Lights
Production:
Music:

Thank you 👠
Special thank you to all the dancers / movers. 🙏🏽🫂

We spoke to Sindhu from about our work, Read more - link in bio.

Thanks dear Sindhu - we’ve been fans of Scale and honored to be part.

Photography portrait:
Art imagery:

This work was set up at .things.wtf and first offline platform at Snowball Studios in Mumbai.

Here’s a curatorial note that accompanied the work by friend and writer Shikha Gala:

We live in a time when the urge to create, grow, build and succeed holds prestige over all else. Burgeoning with aspirational narratives, we are haunted by the constant desire for growth. With this installation’s monolithic presence we want to present a play and shift in perspective, in its large, almost impersonal scale and bearing. While it may not warrant what one thinks is art’s traditional sense of beauty, there is an allure in the act of its deconstruction poised as a counter movement to the need to build and to the inherent notion of reason.
(WTF) “…IS ART” is poised to test the viewer’s willingness to relinquish the safety of the familiar, challenging the ways in which conventions become codified, and thereby mandating that we craft our own meanings rather than consent to habitual rules.
There is an urge to challenge and re-engage with the concerns of both the creative process and navigating the everyday world.

The installation is part of a larger inquiry that began with our wedding. We’ve been working with a community in Uran (Mumbai) that builds iconic depictions of Ganesh, gods, and other sacred images for the Ganesh Chaturthi festival using materials such as POP, clay, wood, etc. At the end of the festival, these depictions are ritually immersed and left to disintegrate in the sea. This allowed us to revisit ideas of permanence, construction/deconstruction and attachment.

Thanks to Jaydeep and his team at for their work and ongoing partnership.

Images, as usual, by and .dang from . for the portrait shots.
Special thanks to and for holding it down, always.