In our idleness, in our dreams: Ashish Avikunthak, Jai Chuhan & Jacqueline Utley

'In our idleness, in our dreams' is a three-person show that features Ashish Avikunthak, Jai Chuhan and Jacqueline Utley. The title of the show is based on a line from Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own': “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.” The show meditates on how women have used domestic spaces to create, converse and to articulate their presences and identities in ways that are not circumscribed by men.

 

The domestic interior as a space for female subjectivity to articulate a “submerged truth” runs as a theme through this show. Those truths emerge from moments of contemplation, making, whispering, talking or sometimes simply being. These truths might be small or profound, but each asserts the importance of being able to claim a space from which to articulate the self. As viewers, we are not automatically given access to what these truths might be. Instead, at a slight distance we watch something unfold from these domestic interiors and inexorably widen from that to become part of the fabric of lives lived and the wider world.