Interpreting objects is often a personal process. It comes from a space within, as responses to forms, sounds, visuals, and narratives. Every interpretation is unique, an amalgamation of distinct experiences, memories, thoughts and imaginations.

At Sarmaya, we wanted to reimagine objects in our archive. What happens when we respond to objects instinctively, disconnected from their historical contexts, and form our own meanings? Our imagination takes over and we make rather whimsical associations. Centuries and geographies apart, would the fish-shaped silver Larin coin ever find its way into a Warli fishing net? Would a majestic tiger from Jethro Buck’s miniatures walk casually into Amber Palace? How would a ‘vahan’ from a Mata ni Pachedi textile navigate today’s chaos and traffic using Google Maps?

Reimagine is a series where we make connections across the collection and examine the extent to which our ways of seeing — and an object’s own meaning — are informed by time, space, and context. We time-travel across genres and objects from the Sarmaya collection, building our own dreamy narratives which are rooted in parallel, and sometimes disjoint, histories and cultures.

Discover the ever-growing collection inspiring this series here: [ Ссылка ]

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