2020, Pakistan, 10' 55'', color - b&w

Camera & Stop Motion: Hera Büyüktaşcıyan

Editing: Gizem Bayıksel  

Sound Design: Gizem Bayıksel, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan                                        

Narration & Song: Hera Büyüktaşcıyan

 

Infinite Nectar* derives from the poetics of space through the abandoned Sikh heritage buildings in Lahore that carry traces of 1947’s Partition. These spaces have been resilient in the face of power shifts, urban transformations, and cycles of trauma throughout history. The artist unfolds these layers through the textures, architectural juxtapositions, and cracks within these spaces, overlaying them with animated mosaic-like stones and caressing them with a fragmented marble hand of Maharani Jindan Kaur, the last empress of the Sikh Empire and a revolutionary female character, who returns back to her place of origin and renders throughout the city like a ghost that reminds the unseen. The piece invokes the cyclical movement of time, memory, and human presence in these spatial palimpsests. It refers to the representation of memory by creating a series of mirrorings through the lost and found elements of spaces that have become the embodiment of the invisible.