When is it time to dream of another country? (2023).
Installation, Varied Dimensions.
Bus seat moquettes, lotus screen blocks from Rodbourne Road and Frank Avenue, hammer, ink on notepad paper, walnut frame, FM/AM world transmitters.
Shown as part of ‘This is the House that Jack Built’.
(APT Gallery, London)
When is it time to dream of another country? is an arrangement of myth-building. Evolving a cartography of love and loss that draws lines between England and India, North and South, Sanghara uses mapping like the joining up of a fresco, starting from her father’s childhood estate and ending at her mother’s.
Tracing ancestral memory through the language of found materials sourced from both parent’s birthplaces, these become migratory talismans, contact zones of shifting vectors, opening out old and new brown/white British geographies of space, land, person and (un)protection.
The radios are tuned just off finding global station frequency, the bus seat moquette is re-stitched just off its pattern flow, the screen blocks coax unbalance. As a series of refusals these materials are failing communication, rejecting alignment, stuck in transit, all “under construction”.
Photographs courtesy of Emily Seagrove.