Nirvana Haldar

Remembering the Future (Exercise.1)

01 November - 23 November

Remembering the Future (Exercise.1), 2024. (film still - 02.18)

Grace is pleased to present Remembering the Future (Exercise.1), an exhibition by Nirvana Haldar.

Nirvana Haldar is an artist and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Haldar recently exhibited ঘেরর িভতের ঘর (home inside a home) at Paper Anniversary, 2023; and published Scenes of Disappearance (?) (and other inquiries that remain) with Sister Library, 2023.

Remembering the Future (Exercise.1), 2024. (00:19, 02:55 - installation view) Digital video, found and archival material.

Remembering the Future (Exercise.1), 2024. (06:51- installation view) Digital video, found and archival material.

Remembering the Future (Exercise.1), 2024. (09:43, 11:11- installation view) Digital video, found and archival material. Film Credit: We are all for the Fatherland (1979) directed by Maroun Bagdadi

Remembering the Future (Exercise.1)

A year passed where the word lost all significance. 

We are beginning at the end of language. 

We are beginning at the end of the world. 


We begin to stop 

Stop everything 

To abolish everything. 

The image that killed us 

                                         will never be erased. 

The image that killed us 

                                         has only left love within us. 

The image that killed us 

                                         will forever guide us. 

The image that killed us 

                                         will liberate us to owe everything to the martyrs. 

The image that killed us 

                                         only holds glory. 

The image that kills us 

                                         leaves us with nothing else but love.

Library display, pedagogical resources, reading list.
Samoa House Library

Following the exhibition, a series of pedagogical events and resources will be hosted at Samoa House Library. Reading list as follows:

- Williams, Robert Franklin. Negroes with guns. Wayne State University Press, 1998.

- Basbous, Monica. “Because the World Will End Again – Preliminaries for a Futural Spatial Practice.” دوام ا لإ رجــــــــــــــــــاء | Perpetual Postponement, ,2020 .Perpetual Postponement, 30 Nov | دوام ا لإ رجــــــــــــــــــاء perpetualpostponement.org/because-the-world-will-end-again- preliminaries-for-a-futural-spatial-practice/.

- Umoja, Akinyele Omowale. "We will shoot back: Armed resistance in the Mississippi freedom movement." We Will Shoot Back. New York University Press, 2013.

- Newton, Huey P., J. Herman Blake, and Fredrika Newton. Revolutionary suicide. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

- Fanon, Frantz. "The wretched of the earth." (1963).

- Basbous, Monica. “And If I Leave.” Weird Economies, 18 Mar. 2024, weirdeconomies.com/contributions/and-if-i-leave.

- https://daratalfunun.org/?event=specters-of-the-streetgeographical-ruptures-and-memories-of-the-future

- HajYahia, Adam. “The Principle of Return.” Parapraxis, Parapraxis, 8 Apr. 2024, www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-principle-of- return.

- Hawa, Kaleem. “Like a Bag Trying to Empty.” Parapraxis, Parapraxis, 24Aug. 2024, www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/like-a-bag- trying-to-empty.

Samoa House Library is an independent library, located in the historically significant Maota Samoa at 283 Karangahape Road. It is a community- grown space that first emerged in response to the closures of specialist libraries at The University of Auckland and continues to explore alternative models of education and ways to prioritise research as practice.

Library display, pedagogical resources, reading list.
Samoa House Library

For more information about Remembering the Future (Exercise.1) , please contact the gallery.