72 Privileges [.....]:

It is precisely this balance between exile and the emotion of the privileged which forms the unique originality of our Breathing in Reverse. As will be clear   already, there is no past or future in Exile, only an immediate present’. So, after being in such a close proximity to the history of Kochi and bumping into the story of the copper plates which tells us about the 72 privileges that were granted to the Jewish and Christian communities by the last king of the Chera dynasty, Cheraman Perumal; (http://www.knanaya.us/id34.html) I have chosen the number 72 to be the basis of my work, an installation on site: A 22 meters long wooden table into which 72 Copper Plates have been inserted. Through the holes (the holes in the copper plates correspond as it were, to the stars constellations above the city of Jerusalem) of those 72 copper plates 5000 meters of white threads (5000 meters is the circumference of the old city of Jerusalem) has been woven, spreading so to see, on the floor. The accompanying 72 drawings is a visual guide to the history of the 72 privileges.