Amar Kanwar Evidence

INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHERS. Imagine nineteen sheets of paper floating forever in the wind. Imagine the simultaneous viewing of multiple time. Imagine time that is filled with as many silences as with words. Imagine the slow gathering together of time. Moment by moment. Evidence by evidence. Imagine the formal presentation of poetry as evidence in a future war crimes tribunal. This book represents a moment in a life and oeuvre constantly in flux, always branching out and converging, following a course, but at times deliberately diverging, because there is time, or time can be found to breathe, to walk, to pause, to move on, to circle. There is poetry in Amar Kanwars words and lyricism in his films both method and metaphor alike by which lifes distillation and dissipation become comprehensible and deeper knowledge can be gained. Space can be grasped through time, time through poetry.