PARADISE LOST

Paradise Lost is part of the HOME Project. In this two channel video installation Pakistani author Intizar Husain talks to artist Rashid Rana about leaving Meerut during the Partition of India and Pakistan. Rashid Rana had suggested a HOME dialogue between Intizar Husain and himself. They started out sitting at Rashid’s desk looking at a large computer screen, on which Rashid was browsing and piecing together hundreds of images of Krishan Nagar, a neighbourhood in Lahore, that he had collected for one of his works. The aim was to simulate Meerut or Dibai according to Intizar Husain’s description. What was striking about this conversation was Intizar’s reluctance to link his memory to images as well as the strong image Intizar’s memory created of a segregated space and, in particular, of Hindu and Muslim architecture.