Abstract
In this article, I conceptualise my installation Objects of fictitious togetherness–I that centres on the interplay between memory, postmemory and the search for truth around the Freedom Struggle, the Partition of India in 1947 – and its aftermath in Punjab – and my encounter with the 1984 Delhi riots. Bringing together fiction, poetry, research and travel to now almost forgotten sites connected to Partition, as well as the experiences of my extended paternal family, who crossed borders, my practice attempts to make sense of events and the communal strife that has marked India's history and continues to do so. Against this backdrop, I chart the biographic, mnemonic and collecting processes leading up to the installation as a conceptual formulation of events that occurred at charged physical and symbolic sites. These sites are brought together through the trope of water – a central theme in my practice – and the local meanings shaping its ontology.
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