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Not From Here, 2009
Today, there are around 100 million migrants in India. In Delhi, migrants form 40 per cent of the population. Many are reduced to seeking charity, though there are some who hold degrees.These were some of the images and thoughts which occupied the mind of artist Ranbir Kaleka when he worked on “Not from Here”. The image speaks with a different eloquence. The luggage on the ground is painted in this manner to achieve a hyper image, on the other hand the painted family group has only a tenuous relation to the image. There is no clear narrative in the video, only a sense of the ‘imminent’. The loop begins with a blue cast of an early morning before sun–rise. Day emerges, and a life–size train thunders past.Visitors to the city, almost invisible, without a record of their presence are just a spectral trace in the city’s memory. As the family group gets dissipated, only two are left, one each on the extreme ends of the group: a woman and a small child, a girl. The two do not go off anywhere, they do not walk out of their painted images. Other members of the group never return. Eventually, the woman and the child just fade out in the place where they stood. Stories of labourers’ lost children are plenty. In all over 34,000 children have gone missing in Delhi in the last 20 years. Whatever the fate of this group in the video installation, the traffic of immigrants has continued and will continue. Nearing the end of the video–loop: a whistle announces new arrivals, and to the strains of a song, the grey of the video transforms ...........
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Not From Here, 2009
Today, there are around 100 million migrants in India. In Delhi, migrants form 40 per cent of the population. Many are reduced to seeking charity, though there are some who hold degrees.These were some of the images and thoughts which occupied the mind of artist Ranbir Kaleka when he worked on “Not from Here”. The image speaks with a different eloquence. The luggage on the ground is painted in this manner to achiev
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