{"id":9147,"date":"2012-08-02T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:15:48","slug":"phantoroman-shore-leave-two-love-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/02\/phantoroman-shore-leave-two-love-stories\/9147","title":{"rendered":"phantoroman: SHORE LEAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:21px\"><em><strong>phantoroman: SHORE LEAVE <br>Shown at: Latitude 28 Gallery, New Delhi (2012)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><em>Single channel projected digital slide show, gilded frame<br>90 x 120 cm<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sailor, a prostitute, a city, and the flicker of stolen time, <em>Shore Leave<\/em>\u00a0unfolds as a photo-roman, a short story told through image and text, where longing and language slip between what is seen and what remains unsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work uses the stillness of photographs and the movement of narrative to trace a desire that resists measure. Set adrift in a cityscape, the work captures a brief encounter between bodies, between words, between a search for warmth and the cold precision of time ticking away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Shore Leave<\/em>&nbsp;is part of Raqs\u2019 ongoing engagement with the photo-roman form: a genre that sits between cinema and literature, fiction and memory, duration and stasis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/phantoroman-Shore-Leave_compressed_compressed.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">phantoroman &#8211; Shore Leave.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped uag-masonry 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