Dialog with the Paternal Figure

In Love;* Exhibition, Les Complices*, Zurich
2024


Dutt Islam shares CCTV footage of her father, Mohinul, watering plants in her Kolkata home.She lived in her ancestral maternal house for several years before moving to Zurich, caringfor 40 plants. After she left, her father visited daily to water them until his health began todecline last year. Dutt Islam documented their digital communications about the plants inan online archive. As her ancestral house is soon to be demolished, all the plants have nowbeen moved to her parental home.


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