With [Exit]: How Pandemics Change Time and Reality

Ahmedabad: Covid cases are at the lowest point of all time, and live back to the track to normal – or that? Does the pandemic leave the impact on individuals and society in general? What it feels like when there is no linear time, no one touches, or when even reality as we know it seems to have changed? These are some of the themes chosen by the student design of the National Design Institute (NID) for their 2×2 meter installation room.
Named after [exit], the exhibition talks about ‘absence …’ different concepts starting from reality to time that matches transparency.
Students use props ranging from polystyrene blocks to wooden wheels and bricks for alarm clocks to deliver life during a pandemic.
This course was guided by Jonak Das, Aayushi Agarwal, and Aishwarya Edakhe.
Shivani Sankar, one of the students, explores the theme of lack of context.
The exhibition has a giant ‘OK’ interspersed with a myriad of meaning.
“I got inspiration from the chat we had with friends and relatives, when we barely had a full understanding of what they wanted to say with those words,” he said.
“‘OK’ in chat can have so much connotations.
During a pandemic, we understand that we communicate not only with words, but also with our body language and greeting tones.” VRUSHALI MEHTA project, other students, who focus on the absence of free will.
“The idea came from personal experience and my background in philosophy.
Many began to wonder if there was free will,” he said.
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Is the situation can make it different, whether they can react to events in a more meaningful way.” He added: “My exhibition has a man on an invisible string, which can or cannot be seen depending on lighting.” Students such as Harshi Lal and Avani Samaga employs games as a fashion involvement about the absence of choices and reality.