Artist Jitish Kallat's newest offering

It started in 2004, when celebrated artist Jitish Kallat made a piece Conditions Apply tracing the seven phases of the moon with the image of a roti, morphing the metaphors for life, time and sustenance. In 2010, Jitish made Conditions Apply 2, referring to the format of a lunar cycle. “It made me think about life as cycles of fullness and emptiness, and ponder on my father’s life. I began by cataloguing all the moons that my father saw in his entire lifetime.”

That led to the concretisation of his show Stations of a Pause, which showcases a 753-part work Epilogue, tracing the lunar months and taking the form of a long maze within the gallery.
“Most people have entered the work through their own moment of birth, journeying to the last moon my father saw in 1998,” says Kallat.

Talking about a piece, The Forensic Trail of The Grand Banquet, the artist says, “It appears as if one is looking at a cosmic space, and soon one realises that every element is an X-ray of food taking the form of planetary formations. Epilogie and this video can be seen in conjunction.”

The artist is now readying to present his next show at Bhau Daji Lad Museum, in mid-April. A uniquely crafted show, it will be in tandem with the collection at the museum, informs Kallat.