Rashid Rana
If you let the moment pass, history may not understand you, 2023
Non-living DNA, Paper, Canvas, Augmented Reality
Site Specific Dimensions
Copyright The Artist
EXHIBITION _Production_CHEMOULDING 100% G4 [This work has been made possible with the contribution of Dr. Faisal] One of Khorshed Gandhy's long standing concerns has been to stand for truth, community...
EXHIBITION _Production_CHEMOULDING
100%
G4
[This work has been made possible with the contribution of Dr. Faisal]
One of Khorshed Gandhy's long standing concerns has been to stand for truth, community harmony and social justice. She has written often to that effect, to heads of state like Prime Minister Nehru, and to political writer- thinkers like Nayantara Sahgal. With Rashid Rana, this love across borders is acknowledged with an email he wrote to Shireen Gandhy when her father Kekoo Gandhy passed, on view here. The digital remains of these conversations are converted to non-living DNA. These letters and this WhatsApp conversation were converted to a binary code, and then to non-living DNA. This non-living DNA was then sprayed onto the canvas and papers.
On the left side canvas is Khorshed Gandhy writing to Prime Minister Nehru in 1961, cautioning him about how government sanctioned media breeds the othering of our neighbours, like Pakistan, and this seeping into younger generations is harmful. On the right side canvas is his reply back to the same. On the paper stacks in front, is a WhatsApp conversation between Rashid and Shireen about a memory Shireen would want to immortalize. It is a quote by her mother, Khorshed, to Nayantara Sahgal. As you take away one paper from the stack, you take a piece of this digital history with you into the future.
As we are experiencing this in 2023, we need to acknowledge that by 2040 the global digital data storage demand of silicon will outweigh the supply. It's predicted that DNA based digital storage will be the next step to accommodate this gap.
[This work has been made possible with the contribution of Dr. Faisal]
One of Khorshed Gandhy's long standing concerns has been to stand for truth, community harmony and social justice. She has written often to that effect, to heads of state like Prime Minister Nehru, and to political writer- thinkers like Nayantara Sahgal. With Rashid Rana, this love across borders is acknowledged with an email he wrote to Shireen Gandhy when her father Kekoo Gandhy passed, on view here. The digital remains of these conversations are converted to non-living DNA. These letters and this WhatsApp conversation were converted to a binary code, and then to non-living DNA. This non-living DNA was then sprayed onto the canvas and papers.
On the left side canvas is Khorshed Gandhy writing to Prime Minister Nehru in 1961, cautioning him about how government sanctioned media breeds the othering of our neighbours, like Pakistan, and this seeping into younger generations is harmful. On the right side canvas is his reply back to the same. On the paper stacks in front, is a WhatsApp conversation between Rashid and Shireen about a memory Shireen would want to immortalize. It is a quote by her mother, Khorshed, to Nayantara Sahgal. As you take away one paper from the stack, you take a piece of this digital history with you into the future.
As we are experiencing this in 2023, we need to acknowledge that by 2040 the global digital data storage demand of silicon will outweigh the supply. It's predicted that DNA based digital storage will be the next step to accommodate this gap.
100%
G4
[This work has been made possible with the contribution of Dr. Faisal]
One of Khorshed Gandhy's long standing concerns has been to stand for truth, community harmony and social justice. She has written often to that effect, to heads of state like Prime Minister Nehru, and to political writer- thinkers like Nayantara Sahgal. With Rashid Rana, this love across borders is acknowledged with an email he wrote to Shireen Gandhy when her father Kekoo Gandhy passed, on view here. The digital remains of these conversations are converted to non-living DNA. These letters and this WhatsApp conversation were converted to a binary code, and then to non-living DNA. This non-living DNA was then sprayed onto the canvas and papers.
On the left side canvas is Khorshed Gandhy writing to Prime Minister Nehru in 1961, cautioning him about how government sanctioned media breeds the othering of our neighbours, like Pakistan, and this seeping into younger generations is harmful. On the right side canvas is his reply back to the same. On the paper stacks in front, is a WhatsApp conversation between Rashid and Shireen about a memory Shireen would want to immortalize. It is a quote by her mother, Khorshed, to Nayantara Sahgal. As you take away one paper from the stack, you take a piece of this digital history with you into the future.
As we are experiencing this in 2023, we need to acknowledge that by 2040 the global digital data storage demand of silicon will outweigh the supply. It's predicted that DNA based digital storage will be the next step to accommodate this gap.
[This work has been made possible with the contribution of Dr. Faisal]
One of Khorshed Gandhy's long standing concerns has been to stand for truth, community harmony and social justice. She has written often to that effect, to heads of state like Prime Minister Nehru, and to political writer- thinkers like Nayantara Sahgal. With Rashid Rana, this love across borders is acknowledged with an email he wrote to Shireen Gandhy when her father Kekoo Gandhy passed, on view here. The digital remains of these conversations are converted to non-living DNA. These letters and this WhatsApp conversation were converted to a binary code, and then to non-living DNA. This non-living DNA was then sprayed onto the canvas and papers.
On the left side canvas is Khorshed Gandhy writing to Prime Minister Nehru in 1961, cautioning him about how government sanctioned media breeds the othering of our neighbours, like Pakistan, and this seeping into younger generations is harmful. On the right side canvas is his reply back to the same. On the paper stacks in front, is a WhatsApp conversation between Rashid and Shireen about a memory Shireen would want to immortalize. It is a quote by her mother, Khorshed, to Nayantara Sahgal. As you take away one paper from the stack, you take a piece of this digital history with you into the future.
As we are experiencing this in 2023, we need to acknowledge that by 2040 the global digital data storage demand of silicon will outweigh the supply. It's predicted that DNA based digital storage will be the next step to accommodate this gap.