Equinox
Part of ‘The Great Bare Mat & Constellation’, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2013)| Shown at: NGMA, New Delhi (2014) |The Whitworth, Manchester (2017)| K21, Dusseldorf (2018)
Animation
Duration, 5′ 25″
A carnival: an autumnal solstice celebration of all that is animate and alive. Horses lose their heads, fish leave their shadows, Diana, the goddess of the hunt is in pursuit of roaring lions and worried dogs and stolid cattle and merry birds and golden dragons.
Equinox is made by Raqs in response to the collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. The video plays on the sense of the night coming alive with animal forms, and echoes their experience during a flashlight midnight tour of the museum where they sensed a different animatedness in the objects of the collection.