Collectors Bundle

This bundle brings together the limited edition, exhibition catalogue and two smaller pieces from Amar Kanwar’s exhibition at Serpentine North.

At its centre is a new edition based on a still from The Peacock’s Graveyard (2023), one of the films in the exhibition. It shows two pomegranates against a black background, with the same intensity of colour Kanwar brings to his moving image. Kanwar has described The Peacock’s Graveyard as a kind of gift: a collection of stories to keep by one’s side.

The edition comes with the exhibition catalogue, which Kanwar conceived as a storybook for adults. Designed by Sherna Dastur, it retells the stories of Such a Morning (2017), The Peacock’s Graveyard (2023) and The Charcoal Man (2026) in print. It also includes an extensive interview between Kanwar and Serpentine’s Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, bringing together conversations from 2008 to the present.

The bundle also includes the Such a Morning notebook, a lined notebook showing a scene from the film, and a set of six postcards from the exhibition.

Amar Kanwar

Over three decades, Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, New Delhi, India) has developed a distinctive body of lyrical films and multi-video installations rooted in the specific context of the Indian subcontinent. While charged with regional specificity and deeply personal histories, his works grapple with some of the most pressing issues of our time, moving seamlessly between documentary and fiction, the archival and the poetic. Shaped by India’s history, Kanwar frequently reflects on the enduring legacies of decolonisation and the 1947 Partition, which led to the creation of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh in 1971. In his films, Kanwar explores the politics of power, displacement, violence, justice and memory. Reckoning with the past to better comprehend the urgencies of the present, his work reveals what unites us, regardless of geography or context.

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