
To inhabit a place is to be marked by it, just as surely as it is marked by us. Whether we arrive, depart, or remain, time courses through both body and landscape, weaving memory into stone, light, and air. The city at night, a skyline veiled in shifting clouds, or a silent street emptied of its day’s noise—all become sites where human presence and absence echo equally. In the show, the works of Mansoor Mansoori and Nivedita Shinde are documentation of places, common, liminal and it is a documentation of the journey of those places and the artists through time; becoming meditations on movement itself: the subtle migrations of spirit and thought, the slow accretion of memory, the stillness that paradoxically signals motion through time. Mansoor’s nightscapes hold the quiet persistence of places often unseen, their emptiness alive with unspoken narratives. Shinde’s vast skies stretch above fragile urban outlines, reminding us of the precarious balance between the intimate and the infinite, between what endures and what vanishes. Together, their practices document not only the external environments we traverse, but also the interior journeys that unfold alongside them. To look at these works is to recognize that even in stillness, we are always in passage; through streets, through horizons, through time itself.
