begin at the end of the map curated by Avani Tandon Vieira: In For Space, the geographer Doreen Massey offers provocatively: “a map of a geography is no more that geography…than a painting of a pipe is a pipe”. By setting the cartographic object alongside the art object, Massey is gesturing at the fundamentally creative nature of image-making, whether artistic or documentary. In the contemporary world, and in India in particular, the role of the map is both quotidian and extraordinary. For a nation born of cartographic separation, and one that has survived many remaking's, the project of knowing and seeing space is paramount. Equally, it is vulnerable to lapses. What the map makes known is known. What it chooses not to know disappears, through violence or time. begin at the end of the map asks a simple question - what would we see if we looked beyond the limits of the map as we know it? The works in this exhibition answer this question through a framework encompassing ecology, language, and documentary practice. Speaking from a variety of disciplines and mediums, they show us that in India, life is often lived in the gaps between representation and reality, the map and experience. As our cities grow denser, informal settlements of tarpaulin spring up. At the hard edges of our borders, communities trade livestock and language. In our forests and valleys, a fragile landscape of sound and life exists out of sight. Against the flatness of the map are thousands of rich, interlinked ways of being. Reclaiming them, through speech, text, and image, is an act of justice. This is the work of the artist, and of the citizen.