The Bedroom

2018

Carpet, glass chess set, cot, human participants

 

For the inaugural Lahore biennial, Asad Raza created an inhabited work in the Summer Palace, in dialogue with its syncretic architectural and cultural legacy. Transforming a portion of this place of royal respite into a chamber inspired by activities common to the present and the Mughal epochs, the work produced inter-subjective encounters. The echoes of the leisurely forms of playing and thinking that once occupied these quarters are amplified and rewritten according to the present.