New Narratives with Priyanshi Saxena

‘Cartography of Narratives’, showcased works by 16 artists from the Indian subcontinent and beyond. What does civilisation contain but disjointed lived experiences of passing temperaments. Through evidential remnants, phantom memories and oral narratives, contemporary mythopoesis issues out of empirical notions, experiences and sustained gestures. Interspersed with the physical, the architectural and the natural, the ‘Cartography of Narratives’ becomes a mapping of the lived, imagined and the oneiric, that clutch within its framework, hints to aspects of reality. The panorama is structured on a network of consequences, with possible contingencies determined by their causal relationships. Fact and fiction become ambiguous entities. While history can be viewed in the light of factual evidences of a recent past, mythology, contained within fictional configurations, harks back to primeval times. What amount of truth lies in contemporary reiterations of these historical chronicles, without an element of fiction? While history on the one hand is selective, on the other, as a result of repeated iterations, it becomes a fabrication over due course.