New Delhi, May 30 -- In a darkened space, frames from Afrah Shafiq's Nobody Knows for Certain unfurl as digital stories. This archival game-interactive fiction-which will be shown at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, acts like a bridge between the past and the present. Shafiq is one of the 11 Indian artists all set to show their work at Sediments of Becoming at the State Hermitage Museum, one of the oldest cultural institutions of the modern world.

Shafiq has been delving deep into the cultural exchanges that took place between India and the erstwhile Soviet Union during the Cold War. She specifically focuses on the storybooks, folktales and magazines such as Soviet Land, which made their way into India and were transl...