07 November 2012, 02:12 PM IST
Amit Mehra's images at Photoink made one sit up. It felt more like an elegy in the little pathways and waters of the Daal Lake, the photographer seemed to have trod on the silent screams and silhouttes of a lives that have eked out their existence and left stories in the leaves of history.
It was after a long time, when the darkness of winter had descended on Delhi that an Indian photographer had actually gathered a suite of works that brought back the mystery and moodiness of the famed Susan Sontag's "The Aesthetics of Silence" .
In an age where newspapers spin out endless jargon on Kashmir, where suddenly everyone waxes eloquent on photography here at last was a show that took us away from debates that contributed actively to postwar pretensions. Whether it be an interior view in a log cabin or the paring down of information for eyes and ears, this show is a punctuated perspective of the dulcet notes of absence in the presence of a lived life.
But silence is not—or should not become—a series of footnotes to Amit Mehra who is cautious and careful with his camera. What I liked most about this culling is Mehra's awareness of a cultural history that either antedates considerably the past or positions the present as a prism of the past. Look closely and you realize that these interiors and grey spaces are also about the silence that is created within the parameters of history. Gulmarg, Srinagar the sheets of snow, barren vast landscapes etched in the iota of the winds that toss up the images of a ghostly galleon this show invokes questions about the sounds of silence.
What is silence? Why does it have such a grip on the imagination? And why do we automatically connect it to important parts of the world such as melancholy, memory, solitude, contemplation, and mourning? Unconsciously, Mehra invites the words of Sontag again: "Silence… as a zone of meditation, preparation for spiritual ripening, an ordeal that ends in gaining the right to speak." This show brought back memories pressed between the pages of the mind.
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