Constellations
A curatorial project by anthropologist Atreyee Majumder.
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My journey in and through Bhakti
This curatorial project arises out of the vast audio-visual archive (photographs, recordings, videos, and text) I have gathered in my longterm research in the Braj region in Uttar Pradesh, India. The larger project entitled “Love Among the Ruins: Tracing Melancholia in Vrindavan” is a long-term ethnographic study of everyday religiosity, lives of devotion, and the urban form in the Braj region that has been considered as a sacred geography of Krishna worship for centuries. It, furthermore, explores the influence of modernity in transforming religious and cultural traditions of devotional love in addition to the devotees’ insistence to foreground the transcendent despite great socioeconomic hardships.
This curatorial project will take from my ethnographic research but look at the material I have generated in a way that is divorced from its obvious social and cultural context - as constellations of sound, movement, sign/signage, space, time.
Some images collected across my travels in Braj and beyond
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Hello visitor,
Hope you will take some time to view this collection (which will expand, I hope, over time) that ponder upon the nature of time as it collects as residue to make the world. I am especially oriented towards sacred geographies - Braj and beyond - in this curatorial journey. But you need not be, in order to come along wit