India, March 28 -- In a far corner of the art gallery Project 88, there hangs a velvet curtain with the Urdu word Dum (Breath) etched on it in gold thread.

A few steps away lies a white body bag, embroidered with colourful peacocks. In the belly of the gallery is a large screen. When it lights up to play artist Pallavi Paul's film, How Love Moves, the screen becomes a portal that takes the viewer to the Delhi Gate cemetery.

Two narrators share their stories with the viewer, over the course of 63 minutes.

One is a migrant who came to India in search of a new life and found love, only to end up witnessing her husband's brutal murder during the Delhi riots of 2020.

The other is a talkative gravedigger named Shamim Khan, who helped bury a...