'Whisper of an Unfired Shot' posits Sardar Udham Singh as a character mediating various discourse- Construction of Histories and Realities, Memorialization, Meaning-making and Truth, and Trans-geographic Information Networks. The excerpt from the project is is a video work based on a statue of Udham Singh in Karnal, my hometown, where the statue holds a gun and a constitution in the other hand. Subsequently, a screen was placed in front of it. This sparked a conundrum- a figure of precise revenge confronting a representational screen that indexes to something else, rendering the gesture futile. The work explores, and builds upon this friction between these two forces.

Rahul Juneja’s practice relates to the experience of the contemporary image and its changing ontology in mediating and constructing our reality. For him, ‘how to slow down the image’ has been a processual anchor, and most of his works explore strategies in countering and mapping the accelerated, repetitive, and hyperconnected image network. His visuality, in tracing such ontological changes, is speculative, constructing narratives and fictive characters that stand as mediators in larger discourses – especially with large-scale epistemic and socio-political violence.