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Making of memory: With analog and digital photos, a new show in Mumbai traces how we remember and forget

Bengaluru-based artist Philippe Calia, who has spent a considerable time in Mumbai over the last 10 years, will showcase his first solo show titled ‘Lethe’ in the city. He explores how going digital is changing the very essence of photographs

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Cloud Atlas (Buenovista), 2022. Photo Courtesy: Philippe Calia/TARQ

Cloud Atlas (Buenovista), 2022. Photo Courtesy: Philippe Calia/TARQ

What links photographs and memories together and how do those ties evolve as the world becomes increasingly digital? Bengaluru-based artist Philippe Calia, who has spent a considerable time in Mumbai, explores this through his latest and first solo exhibition in a gallery space ever, which happens to be in this city.

The show ‘Lēthe’ — named based on the river Lethe from Greek mythology, which makes people who drink from it experience forgetfulness — is set to open at the TARQ art gallery in Colaba. Calia’s artworks use different mediums such as photochemigrams, cyanotypes, and video to explore the essence of digital memory today.

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