Events In A Cloud Chamber

Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia, a 20-minute short film is based on the pioneering painter Akbar Padamsee's film 'Events in a cloud chamber'. Then shot on a 16mm Bolex, it ran for six minutes and featured a single colour image of a trembling dreamlike terrain. Padamsee tried to 'reproduce' one of his own oil paintings using projected light instead of applied pigment, working with tinted filters and stencils to recreate the differently coloured sections of the painting. In this debut solo exhibition, Ahulwalia attempts to recapture some of the cosmopolitan avant-garde spirit of the late 1960s moment by screening his film in a constructed environment that approximates Padamsee’s apartment and the possibility-fueled atmosphere of the Vision Exchange Workshop, in whose context the original film was made.