a passage through passages

Co-curated with Liz Hingley.

Large-scale indoor installation made from paint, overpaid cut vinyl, framed and unframed archive photography, large-scale photographic prints, and archive moving image, orbiting a multi-screen installation by Mumbai-based artist collective CAMP, and with an accompanying publication (70pp, edition of 1000).

A PASSAGE THROUGH PASSAGES
On roads in South Asia

17 January – 21 March 2020

Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London

The exhibition takes us on new and recently rebuilt roads across South Asian regions of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India. It travels through the early twentieth century to the central-Indian "Nagpur Road Plan" of 1943 before heading to the hope, promise, acceleration and hubris of later decades. It takes now-impossible journeys across nation-states, on roads after and before conflicts, and onto coralline oceanic edges.

A PASSAGE THROUGH PASSAGES’ is part of Roads and the Politics of Thought, a European Research Council funded, 5-year ethnographic study of road-building in South Asia led by Edward Simpson (SOAS) supporting an inter-disciplinary team of researchers, curators and administrators from five countries. www.roadsproject.net

A programme of talks, discussions and other events accompanied the exhibition.

Project leader: Professor Edward Simpson

Institution: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK

Funded by: European Research Council