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During the course of his residency at
whiteBOX in Munich,
Vivek Muthuramalingam chose the theme of love and loss, threading together intimate memories and the landscape of Germany which formed the backdrop for many of them. He presented them as a series of photographs and poems, conceptualised in the format of a book tentatively titled,
Poems for a Lost Love. He also set-up a darkroom at whiteBOX for producing ambrotypes, an alternative photographic process through which photographs are made on glass plates.
With the intention of giving the Germans an insight into the life of a South Indian family, Vivek presented a reproduction of a family album put together by his mother, called
Sweet Memories. It included photographs of a Mysore vacation with his close friend, one taken during a visit to a cake fair and another from his grandfather’s house in Cox Town.
Vivek extensively journaled his time in Germany on his Instagram page and displayed them in his studio as prints for a larger audience to view.