Several of Jitish Kallat’s works over the last two-decades have engaged with the ideas of time, sustenance, recurrence and recursion. The image of a progressively consumed roti beginning to acquire a lunar form has returned through several of his seminal works. These include works such as the deeply moving photo-installation titled Epilogue (2011) tracing every moon from his father's lifetime, or video-works such as The Eternal Gradient (2015) wherein 365 lunar-rotis wax and wane as if aeons of time were passing through an ever-changing annual lunar almanac.
In Continuum the central moon/roti corresponds to the moon-phase of the birth-date of a specific individual. With its sweeping interplay of scales and proximities, this contemplative work invites us to reflect on one’s birth within an eternally cyclical celestial phenomenon.