The Anableps Conundrum is a meditation on how memory survives—and how it changes—when the structures that once held it no longer exist. Moksha Kumar’s practice, shaped by her engagement with diversity, transitions, and lived experience, draws from an intimate archive built during her art-history research. What began as a scholarly documentation of Kolkata’s vernacular “Art Deco Style” houses—many of which have since been demolished—has evolved into a new media project that both preserves and reimagines a disappearing architectural language.

In this series, memory is approached not as a fixed record but as a mutable, living phenomenon. The metaphor of the Anableps, the “four-eyed fish” capable of seeing simultaneously above and below the surface, becomes a conceptual anchor. Just as the fish negotiates dual realities, Moksha navigates the tension between fact and imagination, history and reinterpretation. Her “ar(t)chives” appear as digital glitches—interruptions in time that refuse erasure and insist on remembrance.

As viewers engage with the work, her personal archive fractures into many visions. Each gaze adds a new layer, transforming the once-singular recollection into a plural, dynamic field of memory. The parallelogram format enhances this duality: a shape that holds equilibrium despite its tilt, embodying balance between opposing forces—objectivity and subjectivity, presence and loss. The result is a series that feels both precise and fluid, analytical yet instinctive. Each print serves as an artifact of what once stood, and what continues to exist in collective memory. The Anableps Conundrum invites us to look twice—above and below the surface—and challenges us to consider how we reconstruct a world that has already disappeared.