21 APRIL TO 29 MAY
INSTITUTO CERVANTES, DELHI
When the photographer Aitor Lara encountered a medieval-era diary of a Spanish ambassador’s trip through Central Asia, he was inspired to recreate a similar journey. After securing funding from the Spanish ministry of foreign affairs, he travelled throughout Uzbekistan to document its contemporary society. The resultant series, called Tower of Silence, was displayed on the grounds of Delhi’s Instituto Cervantes in large bamboo frames. The exhibition principally featured a range of portraits of Uzbeks of various ages and backgrounds—as though Lara had attempted to present a personified version of the country itself. Particularly striking among these portraits were ones that depicted a boy with a bottle on a market street, a girl standing on the outskirts of a village, and an elderly man sitting on a bed with a tea set.
~ Sumit Sute