Present Tense
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November 2023  According to the dictionary, home is a word that relates to the place where one lives. However, every single person has a different understanding of it. There are specific sounds, smells, materials, landscapes, images, sensations or even people that one can associate with their homeland even though these might not be tied to a specific place and time. Driven by this complexity while gathering symbols, cultural representations and personal experiences, Roshni Kavate and Sejal Parekh join their artistic practices in this exhibition to thresh the semantics of the concept of ’home’. Present Tense brings together visceral works from both artists, across sculpture, installation and video, that are connected by their exploration of sovereignty of the self, corporeal archiving and nostalgic futurism, to create new significances of what it means to belong. Aiming to investigate ‘home’ as a conceptual idea and ‘belonging’ as a source, Sejal’s current body of work revolves around ‘hiraeth’, a Welsh word that expresses longing, belonging and absence. Although her work unfolds through the exploration of these feelings, she circumvents their usual nostalgic entity and focuses on the tensions that they depict   |