What's for dinner? || आज खाने में क्या है?

“Like a composer, she breezes through the kitchen, creating a symphony out of the cacophony of  messy vessels, vegetable peels, a cornucopia of spices and seasonings strewn about, with a thin dried crust of dough sticking to the skin of her hands. Her face, calm, as she adds perfectly sliced vegetables into the splattering hot oil. Skirting around her like playful notes, is the aroma of a delicately composed, and beautifully cooked meal”

As we think of this image, a sense of nostalgia sweeps over, reminding us of stories of our grandmothers preparing luscious mouth watering meals for her family, or the memory of our mothers doing the exact same thing, probably yesterday. A memory of your wife making breakfast this morning. Or a memory of yourself?

Doing the exact same thing. 

What’s for dinner? || आज खाने में क्या है?

is an immersive installation designed around real-life stories of the kitchen. Stories of women, stories by women, stories only spoken in passing, stories that give space to their dreams, desires, ambition, frustrations and heartbreaks.

This installation tries to open up the conversation around the unspoken rule of women being the caretakers of the kitchen.