There are spaces so familiar that they become an extension of oneself.  They aren’t often seen, mostly because they are always around. And then comes a rupture, a glitch, a shift, a sudden absence, a change in movement/ weather - that makes you pause, and look again - perhaps as if for the first time. Interior Weather is an enquiry into the rooms that we carry within us; built into nine complex worlds, that speak to each other through our relationship with image-making.

8:30 emerged as a collective during the pandemic, as the artists were each isolated in their homes in Chennai, Mhow, Trivandrum, Mumbai, New Delhi, Surat, Goa, and Kolkata. This enforced domesticity and interiority, along with their varied geographies, gave rise to a common thread that they have nurtured and picked apart and returned to repeatedly over the years.

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