{"product_id":"memoire-temporelle","title":"Memoire Temporelle - Kalpesh Lathigra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemoire Temporelle\u003c\/em\u003e is a photographic project by Kalpesh Lathigra exploring the city of Bombay through a series of emotionally resonating images reflecting his memories on a life that could have been. The project is the first of a trilogy exploring his personal history to the subcontinent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat are our memories if not the mirrors we gaze into…In Hindu mythology, there was once an idea that if a Hindu crossed the sea away from India they would loose their very being – no more religion, no caste, and becoming trapped in the reincarnation cycle ad infinitum. I thought how puzzling this parable was growing up, \u003cem\u003eMemoire Temporelle\u003c\/em\u003e – or temporal memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My family had crossed that sea, but we were still Indians in the UK, and British non-resident Indians in India “The weekends growing up would be Indian cinema played on pirated videos and listening to the songs from Abihimaan, Sholay or Khabi Khabi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiwali and Navarati in the Autumn of London. In the winter a holiday to India… these were my teenage years.\u003cbr\u003eBetween 2016 and 2019, I made eight trips to Mumbai, I considered it to be my spiritual home. There, over those three years, I photographed all the images for \u003cem\u003eMemoire Temporelle\u003c\/em\u003e – a through-the-looking-glass odyssey into what life could have been had my family not migrated from India to the UK via Africa over three generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images in \u003cem\u003eMemoire Temporelle\u003c\/em\u003e span roads and reflections, portraits and parrots, flowers and fires, shot in both black-and-white and colour. “Emotional resonances”, from memories that may or may not have happened, long since past. Some of the people I met by chance, while others I cast through Feat Artists, a creative agency into vague roles. In the image of a girl, I see someone who could have been my girlfriend, a portrait of a young man, I recognise a version of myself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the more abstract images relate to associative symbols that have recurred throughout my life. A bird and cage, for instance, reminds me of a poem I wrote as a boy, and then later, of reading Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings for the first time and understanding its profound effect on a personal level. Regardless of subject matter every image came to me serendipitously, found while wandering the streets of Mumbai.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKalpesh Lathigra, 2022\u003cbr\u003eHardcover \u003cbr\u003e200 x 150mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tenderbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56094669013369,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0488\/8029\/files\/Tenderbooks_443656f4-74ee-434d-be71-492e5270feaf.jpg?v=1761741165","url":"https:\/\/tenderbooks.pro\/products\/memoire-temporelle","provider":"Tenderbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}