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Created for the inaugural edition of ADFF: STIR in India, Dialogue responds to the curatorial prompt ‘Constructing the Frame: A Frame of Reference’ — an exploration of the relationship between cinema, architecture, design and spectatorship. Set within the grounds of Mumbai’s iconic National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the installation reflects on framing as both a cinematic and spatial act — one that shapes perception and choreographs experience.
In cinema, dialogue layers the moving image with meaning, while subtitles allow stories to transcend languages and cultures. In response to the brief, we chose the word ‘dialogue’ as the conceptual anchor of the installation — transforming typography into inhabitable space. The sculptural letterforms and their counterforms become lenses through which fragments of architecture, sky, movement and light are framed in shifting ways.
The pavilion’s letterforms are set in Curry Display, a hybrid typeface designed by Tania Singh Khosla, bringing together influences from the Latin Uncial script and the Indic script Devanagari. Drawn with a reed pen, its hybrid nature felt especially resonant for a festival centred around exchange across disciplines and geographies.
As light shifts and shadows redraw the forms across the day, the pavilion itself becomes cinematic — an evolving dialogue between typography, architecture, space and spectator.
Dialogue reimagines the cinematic frame as an immersive spatial experience.
