Fever

Fever as this current moment — brings together works from my three ongoing pursuits: NN, Search Party, and Fever itself. It suggests a suspended state - through sickness, love, change, or resistance - that opens space for introspection.

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 Jeet Sengupta.

Minia sluice-gate model - made by Jaihind Naik, 2024, Goa.