Ripples in the Pond
Le Feuilletage 13.11.25- 7pm
Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
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In Ripples in the Pond, Bharat Sikka offers a sensitive exploration of Makharda, a suburban town near Calcutta, where different weathers and social worlds blend.
Through a photographic approach based on duration and observation, the artist highlights the links between memory, modernity, and the slow transformation of the territory.
The project is anchored in a personal return, both physical and emotional, inspired by the 1980s Indian television series Malgudi Days, which evoked the quiet life of a small town.
This reference is not only about nostalgia: it offers an aesthetic framework to approach the imaginary semi-rural of the place.
Ponds, present throughout the work, play a concrete and symbolic role: real water mirrors and metaphorical surfaces, they reflect the tensions between past and present, dream and reality, rural world and emerging urbanity.
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