A show about finding a home in the world

A multidisciplinary exhibition looks at the idea of home through varied lenses

- Avantika Bhuyan

Ranbir Kaleka, is like embarking on a journey through sound and time. The artist has created an immersive experience by projecting a single-channel video on to an earlier oil painting, titled Man Threading Needle, which showed a middle-aged man completely focused on the needle in his hand. Even though the image of the man remains fixed, you feel like the visual has transformed and evolved as the videoscape projected on it changes. In one scene, shadows engage with the figure; in another, as bridges come into view in the video, it feels like the man in the painting has travelled a hundred miles. Such works form a part of Kaleka's micro solo, Fear of the New Dawn, on view at Stir Gallery in Delhi.