Seher Shah’s Notes from a City Unknown is a portfolio of thirty-two screen-prints on paper, drawing on observations and reflections from New Delhi. Through poetic notations composed alongside architectural forms, the work explores the city through sites of fissure, complexity and contradiction through relationships between architectural forms and language. Shah looks to bind architectural, political and historical events to the intimate and personal, through markers of time and memory. 

Produced by Whistleman Films and directed by Kiran Kesav; camera team: Anandhu Madhu, Aby P Robin, Ghanshyam; editor: Anupama K T; research support; Ruchika Dhillon; and artist coordinator: Aishwarya Suresh.

Location: Pepper House, Kochi Biennale 2022
In our Veins flow Ink and Fire, Curated by Shubigi Rao
With thanks to the Kochi Biennale Foundation