What Do Birds Dream At Dusk?
Chemould Presscoat Road, Mumbai, India 2026
What Do Birds Dream at Dusk? is about Strategic unseeing. Here, unseeing is not a medical condition but a political one—It is a system. A design. A consent. A world shaped by selective seeing, curated truths, and collective denial where media, militarism, and myth blur truth into comfort, and comfort replaces conscience.
'The Blind Leading the Blind' informs the central work as an architecture of collapse—a map of how societies move toward catastrophe amid rising authoritarianism. Drawing from 'Memoirs of the Blind', unseeing becomes a method—revealing that every image, like every society, begins in partial sight.
An (Un)Guided Blind Tour extends the work as performance. Blindfolded participants surrender sight to a narrator’s voice, navigating trust, control, and submission. The narrator becomes both authority and illusion, constructing unverifiable realities.
Braille works emerge as scar and syntax—exposing how vision is structured through exclusion and touch. The gold-framed drawings resist easy access: to open is labour, to look is responsibility.
The exhibition reveals unseeing as manufactured, vision as policed, and sight becomes resistance—and condition, a strategy with consequences.
