OofP36.Rekha Rodwittiya
In …Times (performance photo work) by Vibha Galhotra from the eponymous series, digital photo print on Hahnemuehle archival paper, 2020; credits: collaboration on dress design – Rohit Gandhi and Rahul Khanna, behind camera – Rajesh Kumar Singh
About the work, Galhotra says: ‘In … Times’ is a series of staged/performative photographic works conceived in response to the unimaginable period brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The forced sense of social distancing in fear of contracting the virus has massively changed the world order, questioning the very meaning of what was previously considered normal. Despite being pushed towards surreal boundaries and lifestyles, the gap between our indispensable need for our planet and our uninhibited abuse of the same continues to widen. I wanted to create this series of photo works, then, to express this augmented fear of new age viruses and the isolation that, while is considered forced in the present times, might just be the new normal of the future.’