Monogamy (Kovalam – Kerala) is a self-portrait photograph (25.4 x 19 cm.) on archival paper, depicting the artist lying alone on a bed, looking at a sunlit window in a high-ceilinged room. The image explores faithfulness and self-discovery, revealing how secrecy, deception, and broken trust can strain exclusive relationships and challenge the boundaries of fidelity. The subject’s vulnerable posture and contemplative gaze evoke longing, introspection, and uncertainty. The window becomes both a threshold to the unknown and a mirror reflecting confinement, unspoken desires, and the tension between commitment and personal freedom within monogamy.

Monogamy (Kovalam – Kerala) is part of Baptist Coelho’s ongoing multimedia series, Kovalam – Kerala, which reflects on the artist’s emotional journey through an intimate narrative of a past relationship. The series resonates with the ideas of Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962), a French philosopher and phenomenologist, particularly his book ‘The Poetics of Space’ (1958), which explores how imagination, memory, and the intimacy of space create emotional resonance.