In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?”