Another interesting aspect to the exhibition is the video, titled, ‘Waiting for others to arrive’. Explaining the work, Shetty, says, “We are conditioned to watch ­cinema in a certain way – a linear time frame that tells us a story. But here, I am trying to break that mode.” Divided into three ­different shots, the movie runs the same scene in three different frames shot from the same ­camera angel. Objects fade in and out, providing a sense of past, present and future within the same space. 

Talking about his initial days as an artist, Shetty, says, “We had a very liberal environment at home. My father was an artist himself, a Yakshagana performer. So when I decided to take up art, no eyebrows were raised.” What was contradictory though was the fact that Shetty’s father belonged to an age-old tradition of dance and theatre and he himself was a student of western art history. “Recently, I have constantly and consciously started thinking about this contrast and I am ­trying to find a negotiation point between the two,” says the Mumbai-based artist.