New Delhi, June 14 -- With an upturned moustache a la Salvador Dali, a nattily clad gentleman in a three-piece green suit and bright blue shoes greets visitors to the exhibition, No Longer a Memory, at Gallery Sumukha, Bengaluru. This is none other than the artist-photographer Shivaraju B.S., better known by his moniker, Cop Shiva. In this latest avatar, he looks as if he has just stepped out of the frame of one of his photographs.

Curated by Joshua Muyiwa, a Bengaluru-based poet and writer, this series of photo performance works features another character alongside Cop Shiva- his mother Gowramma. Long fascinated by the idea of masquerade and the roles essayed by people in their public and pri vate lives, the photographer decided to trai...