Q. How did the idea to create Covering Letter come about? Why did you decide to work with the letter by Gandhi to Hitler?
A. The historic letter has been on my mind ever since I first saw it at Mani Bhavan nine years ago. It reads like a thoughtfully composed haiku; its intent tightly held within a wrap of ambivalence. Somehow, I envisaged it as a nebulous apparition that one could traverse with one’s body. As people move through it, I hope they will not read just the letter but reflect on the layered complexities within this seemingly simple proposition; words emanating from the principal proponent of peace to one of the most violent individuals who lived in that era. And yet, like all Gandhi’s gestures and his life experiments, this piece of correspondence seems like an open letter destined to travel beyond its delivery date and intended recipient. It seems like a letter written to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Covering Letter, 2012, fog screen projection. Pic Courtesy/B Huet/Tutti, Paris