Fever / জ্বর

Fever is a series of works made from fragments of family lore and  imagined geographies. Craters are central motifs: impact sites where memory and possibility pool. They become generative spaces—where absence stirs new presence, where what lies buried is suddenly made visible. Craters are imagined as feeding bowls, ponds, carriers, or portals—thresholds between stillness and emergence. Tent-like forms mirror them, suggesting relations between exposure and refuge. 

/Fever is also my first memory. I remember lying on my grandmother’s lap while she took care of me because I had a fever, while my sister and cousins sat together watching a film in a slightly dark room. It felt like a way of holding all these things together – fever as a state of transformation, of creating antibodies, and of this memory itself. The craters from my grandmother’s childhood stories also appear in the drawings. They think about beginnings, and about beginning from a hollowed-out space that becomes a bowl, an eggshell, a carrier, a crater, or a pond.

Documentation photographs by Anupam Diwan and Jeet Sengupta.