The Mumbai Transcripts
Nisha Mathew Ghosh
The pavilion takes Mumbai as a trope—a city shaped by provisionality and improvisation, animated by gazes of opportunity, desire, history and inequality. A city in perpetual making and unmaking, enacted daily, echoing its historic eco-morphology of islands made and unmade by sandbar connections at low tide.
Through three perspectival gazes, the pavilion employs bioscopes: slow, analogue devices of image casting derived from early Indian cinematic apparatuses. These instruments reconstruct conditions for re-engaging the city in the present, staging a deliberate unmaking of the digital. Slowness becomes a method to pause, reflect and confront Mumbai’s unresolved simultaneities.
Image: Mallikarjun Katakol
Nisha Mathew Ghosh
‘Mathew and Ghosh Architects,’ was a studio founded by Nisha Mathew in 1995. Her work interrogates the publicness of engagement with the city, with ideas for reparation, and immersive archiving in a range of projects - from very tiny to large across the urban environment, architecture, and design.
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