Powerful memories

June 6, 2026
What looked like a giant shimmering chandelier displayed against a velvety amethyst blue wall turned out to be Sheba Chhachhi’s assemblage of 600 pieces of laboratory glassware, the kind that the Nazis once used to manufacture amethyst blue Zyklon B, the poison gas that exterminated their prisoners. Experimentations with alchemy had led to the discovery of this lethal gas. This work was part of an exhibition titled All that you Leave Behind curated by Gayatri Sinha and held at Art Exposure.