I have always been fascinated by ma/as for it is perhaps the only ritual object shared by all religions: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity at large.
But also because it can embody physically a metaphorical chain of thoughts, feelings, prayers and wishes, linked together by a unique thread.
The ones playing within the installation were collected

– physically recorded – from interactions I had with individuals who trusted me.
Like a talisman, they play gently within the urns that form yet another sacred universe where whispers may become a hymn to harmony. In times where religions have become the pretext to many drawbacks, Murmur is a prayer for peace.
The installation spouses organically the shape of a tree, evoking the symbiosis that exists between nature and the sacred.
Murmur was conceived in 2009 during Soi/Bite, a Khoj workshop organized in Bihar by artist Shambhavi Singh. Bihar is a region in eastern India, which to the outside world, is often referred to as a place of poverty, suffering, dirty politics and violent rule. However, historically, Bihar is before else the seat of Buddhism, Jainism, a place where Sher Shah Suri, took on to building the Grand Trunk Road, where he laid the foundation for the future Indian economy by starting the rupee currency.
Bihar, a place whose name is derived from the Sanskrit word Vi hara, meaning the “abode”, the holy garden …