The fourth floor of the Art House at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is currently a red room. Not a torture chamber, not quite a villain’s lair, but a more Lynchian vision of an HQ or “control room” of Toiletpaper, this is the final chapter in the sprawling exhibit Run As Slow As You Can.
On either end of the control room are vitrines exhibiting the photography-only magazine’s long history in media. On the walls hang pithy quotes as neon signs such as “Tell the truth and run” and “I’m a drug you should try”. In the centre of the room are two officious-looking red tables and chairs. On the first sits an old TV, on which plays a video of a man quietly working in an artist’s studio. On the other is a DELL desktop and on its screen is a rooster’s head floating in outer space. “The Oracle” will answer any question you type into a floating text box, even to something as rhetorical as: “What will the world be like in 3023?” Pat comes the reply: “Like a surrealist dreamscape painted with shades of unknown.”
