Memoire Temporelle
Thursday 29th September - Friday 28th October
Have a Butchers is pleased to present Memoire Temporelle by Kalpesh Lathigra.
Debut show of Memoire Temporelle and book signing.
Born in Forest Gate, London, to East African Indian immigrants. Lathigra’s work is that of the insider outsider.
The body of work explores themes of memory and migration in these isolated photographs made in Mumbai, India between 2016 - 2019.
The exhibition reflects the myths surrounding the notion of the "Kala Pani" – The Black Water represents the proscription of the over reaching seas in Hinduism. According to this prohibition, crossing the seas to foreign lands causes the loss of one's social respectability, as well as the putrefaction of one’s cultural character and posterity. Drawing upon Rabindranath Tagore’s poem Voyage without End – the sea represents the finite line which must be crossed in order to feel the Infinite.
A sunset draws the viewer towards the complexity of love, loss and friendships; whilst a melancholy guides you on a peaceful journey through time and place.
