This is a collective artist's book of anticipatory notes, images and sketches, made during Clark House Initiative's curatorial residency for the exhibition 'L'exigence de la saudade', from May to July 2013 at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.

'The exhibition brings together three artists from distant geographies within India – Padmini Chettur, a contemporary dancer, Prajakta Potnis, a visual artist, and Zamthingla Ruivah, a master weaver, whose works are conceptually engaged with remnant cultural forms, not as endangered traditions, rather to reinvent them in the present. These reinventions spring from the exigencies of political anguish, or the scouring for identities and representations, after the violence of cultural amnesia, experienced over the numbing of years as a kind of saudade.
These artists create a complex backdrop of the Indian subcontinent, too culturally conjoined with everything else, for any sense of nation to arise. In this word saudade, as in the name "Bombay" (bom baía), is heard the persistence of a Portuguese past. Exigency and saudade, retain the tension of opposites; the consciousness of the past in the present, which permits the envisaging of what is still to come.' - from the organiser's website