A sculpture from 'The Future of Nostalgia' by Murari Jha (Courtesy of the artist and Nature Morte, India) How often do we think about the leg of a table? Now, imagine a table with that leg missing. By hanging one such solitary leg from the ceiling at his new exhibition in Delhi, Murari Jha makes the innocuous central, making the often overlooked visible. Past the leg at the entrance of the Nature Morte space in the Dhan Mill complex, there is a deliberate pile of similar dismembered furniture limbs on the floor. Then there is a finger – magnified, cast in bronze — behind which is a large amorphous black structure, the kneading marks on it still seeming fresh. At first glance, the abstraction of the objects renders the exhibition an air of randomness, until the blistering heat of an April afternoon casts them in a meaningful mould . Jha dissociates the objects from their original context of existence, challenging the nonchalance with which we take the ‘normal’ for granted.…