Sparseeing examines the polyphonic histories of community culture, specifically the Parsis, as illuminated through the archives of the Gazder-Bharucha family. Sharing a moment in the itinerant life of Mr. Keki Gazder, a mechanical engineer working for the renowned Tata company in Jamshedpur, Gazder’s profession takes him further afield to the industrial hubs of Birmingham, Brussels, and Belgium.

Composed as an absorbing diary, this new publication presents an amateur photographer’s evolving visual sensibility. Shaped by memory and chance, Keki’s journey is traced by the authors through material recovered from a small box of keepsakes retained by Varun Gazder, the protagonist’s grandson. Sparseeing thereby invokes that which is fragmentary, overlooked, and fragile, and is deployed as both method and philosophy by the artist/authors. 
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Presented by The Alkazi Foundation of the Arts
Supported by Tata Trust

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PROGRAM

4th December, 2025
6-7pm Panel Discussion between the artists and Suryanandini Narain
7-8pm Exhibition Preview

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3 January 2026

As the month-long exhibition 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 concludes, we invite you to the closing weekend for an Archival Tour by Shaleen Wadhwana, and Sonic Extension by Anandit Sachdev.

Shaleen Wadhwana will engage with 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨’s archival fragments, family histories, and modes of seeing. The tour will explore how (in)complete archives shape narrative, memory, and interpretation. In Sonic Extension, Anandit Sachdev responds to the ideas, themes, and images presented in the exhibition through his own sound compositions.