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Indian way of drying clothes gets an artistic twist at this gallery in Bandra
Updated On: 31 May, 2024 07:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Devashish Kamble
A photo exhibition at a Bandra venue will deep-dive and decipher the common practice of drying clothes in India to find a common thread
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The collection includes photographs from the slums of Mumbai
There are more things keeping this country together than breaking it apart,” shares photographer Karan Khosla, with a certain conviction in his tone over a phone call. Given the current state of affairs in the country, we wonder where Khosla might be drawing his inferences from. The answers to our questions are displayed in the form of 23 vibrant photographs at Khosla’s new exhibition — Where India Dries Its Clothes — an exploration of the shared practice, an equaliser in an unequal society.
“There was no masterplan; or a plan at all,” admits 33-year-old Khosla. The photographs of humble clotheslines stretched between trees in backyards and weary pillars in balconies of houses are a culmination of Khosla’s decade-long travels across the country. “As a Mumbai-based freelance photographer, I would spend months travelling with my camera. It was only in 2019 that I realised my photographs had a recurring element, the clotheslines. It slowly evolved from there,” he recalls.
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