The Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum is pleased to announce One Hundred Thousand Suns, the debut screening of Rohini Devasher’s compelling and immersive four-channel video installation in India, in collaboration with Project 88.

The focal point of the exhibition, One Hundred Thousand Suns explores four distinct dimensions of the Sun: material, ephemeral, personal, and geographic. Driven by more than 157,000 portraits of our nearest star, observed over 120 years, this audio-visual work centers on the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory in India, where every day since 1901 staff have recorded images of the Sun. Through the observatory’s archival material, combined with public domain images from NASA and the artist’s own data – photographs, drawings, videos, and interviews with eclipse chasers – Devasher explores the complexities of observational astronomy and the ways in which ‘seeing’ is strange, wondrous, and more ambiguous than one might imagine. The exhibition also features Devasher’s Sol Drawings, Shadow Portraits and Skywatch, a series of embellished copper works, adorned with markings inspired by solar phenomena.