In her first group piece, conceived for five performers, Indian-born artist Nayana Keshava Bhat’s interest focuses on the remnants left behind by losses, memories and human relationships. She weaves together grotesque scenes using sharp texts, abstract movements and live sound into a dreamlike atmosphere that turns the Room of Inevitable End into a surreal trip between reality and fantasy.

“Why should I remember how that awful Saturday morning felt like or the freshness of that rain or the smell of that toilet or the warmth of her stories? I do not understand why I should remember a song I did not like or a cat whose skull was crushed, froth in its mouth, breath strained, heartbeat fading away, gone, gone, gone away into nothing that I can see.“

What is the common factor in dreams and memories? What is the purpose of remembering something that’s bygone? What is this nature of dreams that defies all rational, moral, “socially acceptable” norms of the waking reality? How is it that every dream becomes such a physical experience, while sometimes waking reality seems like an out of body, unreal experience? Where does the dream end and the waking reality begin? What is the inevitable end?

Memory is not in the mind, or in the thoughts, but in the body - in its experiences, its tissues, cells, layers of muscles, nerves, blood, DNA. Dream is a physical experience of something that did not happen in the physical world.

Room of Inevitable End deals with residues of loss, memory, and relations among people; and how they express and resolve themselves in dream-like realities.