May 09 2025 to May 11 2025 11 a.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Exhibition Opening: Friday, 9 May, 6pm

Exhibition Timings: 11am to 8pm

Exhibition on show until: Sunday, 11 May, 8pm

Walkthroughs with the Artist: 
Friday, 9 May, 6:30pm
Saturday, 10 May, 6:30pm
Sunday, 11 May, 6pm

Shared Memories: Personal Archives as Collective Storytelling (Workshop): Sunday, 11 May, 4pm – 5:30pm

What is home? Does a home need to be a physical space that one occupies? Can a place become a person and vice-versa? How does homelessness feel? What would its contours be? What does it mean to migrate, be displaced, and to desert? What are the ways in which we engage with loss?

The images on display are part of a broader body of work by Mritunjay Kumar, a documentary photographer and filmmaker. They depict a government quarter, photographed on the final day of its occupancy by his family. While the images may initially appear to document the ephemeral nature of leaving a house, the work serves as an enquiry into questions that Mritunjay—and perhaps countless others—continue to ask.

This work forms the foundation of a larger, collaborative piece: The House Blue, a hybrid of photo exhibition and narrative theatre-style performance, co-created with Bengaluru-based theatre artist Anish Victor.

The accompanying black-and-white images act as a precursor to the main work. They were created during a journey from Mumbai—where Mritunjay lived for over a decade—to his hometown in Jharkhand, and back again. These two places, both “home” or home-like to him, are connected by images made through the windows of trains, cars, and buses. They capture moments of reflection on migration, migrants, wealth, and life, as he encountered them.

The House Blue was originally produced by Serendipity Arts Foundation for the Serendipity Arts Festival, 2024.

Shared Memories: Personal Archives as Collective Storytelling (Workshop)

A compact, hands-on workshop exploring how personal photographs and memories can become starting points for broader stories. Through writing, sharing, and reinterpretation, participants reflect on the emotional and collective power of the personal archive.

RSVP for the workshop here.

Artist

Mritunjay
Photographer, Filmmaker & Storyteller
Mritunjay is a social documentary photographer, filmmaker, and storyteller. Over the past decade, he has focused on photographing and writing about issues concerning Indigenous Peoples, women farmers and entrepreneurs, and rural India.

Coming from a rural agricultural family, growing up in a steel township, and relocating frequently for education and work, Mritunjay finds the themes of migration and displacement recurring in his artistic practice—a reflection, perhaps, of his own unending search for ‘home’.

His work has been exhibited, published, and recognised on various platforms. His latest project, The House Blue, is a collaborative exhibition-cum-narrative theatre piece.