Unlynching: You never one piece 2017

Title: UNlynching : You never one piece

Installation with bronzes, found objects, wall drawing, gesso painting on board, and glass

Size: variable (8 ft x 3 ft x 8")

The years since Indian Independence in 1947, tabulated categories of time here mapped, textualized, and presented the history of violence, splintering off from the mainstream narrative in a most literal way.

∞1947, 1948, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025  to be cont.

It is an unfinished work of communal violence…

Every time I try to finish it,

Another wound opens.

Another date. Another name.

Another child who never returns home.

The spreadsheet bleeds into today,

into now.

I can never put a final full stop.

The violence continues.

It refuses to end.

Unlynching is not only an auto-ethnographic exploration of post-independent communal violences  in India, documentation; it is a rupture, a resistance, a witnessing. It reminds us that while time passes and images fade, the truth of violence remains embedded in objects, bodies, and memories. This work remains in flux with each installation, reflecting the evolving yet constant nature of brutality. Through its unbelongings and silences.