Jitish Kallat b. 1974
29 x 21.5 in
73.66 x 54.61 cm
In the later piece the phases of the waxing and waning moon where represented through the “roti” or Indian bread. The “roti”, a staple diet in India, is a metaphor of sustenance, there one day and vanishing the next,
much like the cycle of the moon that oscillates between abundance and dearth. Likewise the immersive video 'Forensic Trail of the Grand Banquet' refers to a cosmic field through x-ray images of food. An image of sustenance evokes notions of galaxies and orbits that change their forms from small seeds to giant like structures traveling through the cosmic field like stellar remnants.