Sculpture, video projection, documentary photos, toys, paint, balloons, dimension variable, 2003

Recreation and violence permeate this work, directly puncturing any glamorous notions of the largest democracy in the world, that of India. Within the installation itself, one is moving in time between being confronted with what happened (the genocide in Gujarat), memories of the event and the reflections months later. It embraces different temporal processes, shifting between mediums and between emotional and intellectual responses that in the end deliver us back to the issue of violence. The sculptural gun called Bharat Gas is made out of toy gas cylinders alluding to their use as explosives.