Anant Joshi b. 1969
22.2 x 92.7 x 11.4 cm
This particular instance comes to life with Joshi’s sculptures where he alludes to sacred rituals, like evoking the spirit of chess pieces before starting a game or Chinese legends of how painting-in the eyes of dragon murals makes them come alive and fly away leaving gaps behind. What you see here are the signatures and pages of this petition come 'alive' to remind us that gaps in memories, histories, and archives are ever-present and how we remember them defines our capacity to look at our past with grace and humour.