This is an installation, particularly site-specific, dealing with the concept of writing history through memory ‘historicising’ the memory of the ancestor of a particular space occupied by the object of desire. Myth, memory, and belief associate with an unknown space in a given space.

Maya (Illusion)
Site-specific installation with sound and projection
(Collaborative project between Manas Acharya and Bruce Allan)

The installation comprised two pieces in an otherwise empty room. Both pieces were temporal. Each recorded and relayed elements previously present in the room that had been removed or were no longer there at the time of presentation.

Bruce Allan presented the sound of a fan as a record of time passing. The rhythm and mantra-like drone of the absent fan filled the room and passed through the windows embracing the immediate surroundings of Chaudhuri Bari.

Manas Acharya projected shuttered light on to a pair of French windows. The projection, made in darkness, recorded the same subject photographed earlier in daylight. Real time experience turned into an image and, juxtaposed with actuality, underlined the ‘real’ along with the illusion created by the image.