Cityscapes are consumed or conjured in a panoramic form even today when much of our content has turned vertical. Here, CAMP reimagines this view as a vertical landscape using traditional long-take shots that tilt downwards, conveying a lot of information and building a new narrative of the city. Giving us a view of a shot, Shaina Anand of CAMP shares, “Each shot is a single take that begins in a wide shot, zooms in to a certain point in the city — this could be a building or the horizon, and then begins to drop down. One of the shots begins with Haji Ali Dargah, now surrounded by the Coastal Road project. The camera jerks its head violently, swishes and pans a full 100 degrees to the northeast to the Palais Royale, the city’s tallest building that stands on the Shriram Mills compound.”

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She adds that as the camera goes down the illegal floors of the skyscraper, on the right appears MHADA housing and BDD chawls in the background. “Here, you spot two people standing resolutely on the roof looking back at us, as if to say, ‘We were here yesterday, we will be here tomorrow’ You dip down the thin vertical longitudinal strip till you come to the footprint and floor of Shriram Mills. In this vertical slice, you see an incredible amount of detail and a new way to read this landscape,” she shares.

Priyanka and Prateek Raja

Music makes up a prominent part of the experience of this installation. It has been composed by Tushar Adhav who goes by the moniker, BamBoy, and who grew up in Lalbaug. The dynamic and bassline-heavy soundtrack comprises songs and poems by city writers including Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, Sambhaji Bhagat, Anna Bhau Sathe, Narayan Surve, Shenaz Shaikh and others. One of the seven screens displays the lyrics of the soundtrack.

This year, Experimenter steps into its 15th year. Revealing plans for the year ahead, Priyanka Raja and Prateek Raja, the gallery’s directors and co-founders note, “We feel the need to continue to engage deeper within the cities we inhabit and its public spaces. The entire year is marked by our interest in how public spaces can cradle ambitious contemporary programming and how we can continue to grow into the fabric of the communities and spaces that surround our galleries.”

Till January 21; 4 pm to 9 pm
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