The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) in Bengaluru has added a hybrid exhibition-performance to its October programme. Conceived, written and performed by Nimi Ravindran, To Forget is to Remember is to Forget traces the layered relationships between memory, mirror, mind and mother, reimagining how loss is inherited across personal and collective histories.

The work moves across visual and sound installations, video, photography, print and live performance, refusing to settle into a single medium. Rather than treating memory as something stored and retrieved, it asks how memories survive even when they seem forgotten — persisting through stories, objects and people, and connecting individual recollection to the changing memory of a city and a country.

Ravindran is joined by a production team that includes design and dramaturgy by Sujay Saple, video art and editing by Ben Brix, sound design by Baan G and Sachin Gurjale, image design by Aakriti Chandervanshi, and production management by Charulatha Dasappa. The layered credits reflect the work's ensemble character, built as a collaboration between theatre-makers, visual artists and musicians.

For MAP, which has run a dense October programme including a comics weekend and exhibitions such as A Moving Line, the piece continues the museum's interest in formats that blur gallery and stage. Ravindran's work asks audiences to sit with discomfort rather than resolve it: the inheritances it maps are unfinished, transmitted through gesture and sound as much as through image. Admission details and performance timings are listed on MAP's event page for the show. It is on view at the museum's Kasturba Road building in Bengaluru.