Jagrut Raval

You Exist There/I Exist Here is a 12 minute video of birds swarming in the skies of my hometown of Ahmedabad.Within the murmuration you can read text embedded in the video about the idea of territory and identity. The text is imagined as a dialogue between two individuals pointing to a map, each showing where they are from. For birds, such conversations would never occur. They don't need to take anyone's permission to fly across someones land. For them what is private and what is public?

This is your space.
This is my space.
You are from here.
I am from there.
This is your territory.
This is my territory.
That is where you belong.
This is where I belong.
You exist there.
I exist here.