Remember Me Until the Winter – A Trace of Now
Remember Me Until the Winter is more than an exhibition; it is an evocative atmosphere, a meditation on memory, identity, time, and place. Set within the worn industrial shell of The New Great Eastern Mills in Mumbai, this immersive experience becomes a living archive - where the echoes of the city’s textile past engage with speculative, artistic futures.
This is not merely a curated show but a form of cartography. Every artwork, installation, and intervention functions as a waypoint on a transformative journey - mapping shifts that are both deeply personal and widely collective. Once machines of mass production, the mills now beat with new life, reimagined as experimental spaces where artists don’t just display - they dwell, disrupt, and unearth.
At its core, the exhibition offers a lyrical interplay between decay and renewal, between the fading rhythm of the loom and the vibrant pulse of contemporary creation. It acknowledges Mumbai’s identity as the “Manchester of the East” while avoiding romanticised nostalgia. Instead, it delves into the layers of urban memory, presenting the city as both canvas and collaborator - alive with contradictions, shaped by continuity and change.
The works unfold like tactile poems - intimate yet expansive - evoking themes of longing, migration, survival, and transformation. Time here is not linear but cyclical, immersive, and fluid. Visitors move through a sensory archive where scent, shadow, and silence become integral to the narrative. The audience is not just an observer but a participant - tracing histories, inhabiting absences, and confronting the shifting textures of place.
Remember Me Until the Winter becomes a quiet yet potent call to remembrance - not through sentimentality, but through presence. It asks us to engage with the emotional and historical weight of space, to mourn what has faded and imagine what might still emerge. In the fragments of the past, we are offered a glimpse of potential futures - uncertain, fragile, yet deeply resonant.
