Maze (table in Hindi) is a collection of stories woven into a physical narrative examining the nature of desire, a snow covered mountain, and the system we find ourselves in.

A table with an under shelf and a person called Pavitra Kumar is at the centre of the piece. The table becomes a vehicle for exploring spaces held together by the pieces of wood, while Pavitra Kumar explores spaces held together between dreams and reality, language and lullabies, desire and distances.

A bank employee yearning to see the mountain,

A watchman at a mall dreaming of his home on the mountain

A young woman in a small flat in Mumbai thinking of her home in the hills

A young driver dreaming of a life in Canada

A young girl running a shop on the mountain who prays to it every day, wishing to move to a big city

A mountain that makes wishes come true

Wishes that move mountains

And the bureaucratic red tape that ties all this together through an endless maze of application forms, identity cards, permits, licenses, permanent addresses, passport numbers, account numbers, block numbers, room numbers, window numbers, and token numbers.

Maze moves through multiple narratives that are corporal in nature using the table as a set, a co-actor, as abstract space along with physical and aural imagery using gestures, sounds [mumblings/chants/ songs], and spoken text. The piece does not look to convey the specific details of these stories so much as to use them as provocations evoking a sense of the world that we find ourselves in - a maze of systems, processes numbers as we maneuver our way through it carrying our dreams and desires with us.

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