sukanya ghosh
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Sukanya's artistic practice spans painting, photography, animation and the moving image. She works with the minutiae of urban life, the fantasy of popular culture and the shape shifting of memory. Her work with family archives, found images, medical imagery and text traverse illusory narratives and sensory passages, working extensively with the techniques of collage, erasure and deconstruction.
She says "My practice has been rooted in a combination of collected photographs, objects and collage which I express in constructed fictions. At the core of what I do, is a continuing exploration of the intimate and the quotidian alongside fictional landscapes and speculative futures. My works are a product of extensive re-working, layering and erasures. I work both with physical materials as well as with digital interventions. I am deeply interested in the processes of analogue photography and printmaking processes. This combination of techniques allows me to work with nuances of the ‘archive’, ‘location’, and ‘past’. I explore how the question of the role loss, recollection and imagination play in how we build identities – both individual and collective. In removing specifics of time, place and event, I create my own mythologies. I extend these ideas to look at the visual construct of cities to work on 'landscapes of loss' and the politics of 'belonging' and 'land' and 'home'. She has extensive graphic design experience, is an occasional teacher and has managed Arts programmes. She lives and works between Delhi and Calcutta. |
curriculum vitae
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b. 1973, Calcutta
Education 1996-2001 Animation Film Design, (Advanced Entry Programme) National Institute Of Design, Ahmedabad 1992-96 B.F.A. In Painting (1st Class) Faculty Of Fine Arts, M. S. University Of Baroda Awards /Honours / Selections RCA x SAF Senior Artist Residency, Royal College of Art, London 2024 Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, Artist-in-Residence, 2023 Generator Cooperative Art Production Fund Grant 2021 FLOW Photo festival: Winner, Wall Exhibition 2020 Project Commission: 5 Million Incidents 2020 Flash France Grant 2017 Fòcas India Programme: Selected artist, 2017-18, Fòcas Scotland Charles Wallace India Trust Award 2008 Artist-in-residence 2008, Spike Island Bristol, UK 60 X 60 Project Commission 2007, Motiroti, UK Independent Fellowship, 2007, Sarai, New Delhi Artist-In-Residence Grant, 2006, French Embassy in India Artist-In-Residence, 2006, AIR Vallauris, France Commission: Commonwealth Vision Awards, 2002 Selected Shows/ Works 2024 Manifold: Contemporary Perspectives from India, curated by Arko Datto, Galleri Image, Aarhus 2024 All Together Now, India International Centre, Delhi 2024 Solo: Untitled, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London 2024 Imaging Arriving Departing, curated by Veerangana Solanki, Exhibit 320, Delhi 2024 Sheher Prakriti Devi, curated by Gauri Gill, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai 2023 Solo: The Parting of Ways, Curated by Rahaab Allana, Cymroza Gallery, Mumbai 2023 Mycelial Legacies I Curated by Deeksha Nath, Bikaner House, Delhi 2023 Is the Image Even Human? Curated by Jasone Miranda-Bilbao, Cervantes Institute, Delhi 2022 The Texture of Promises Curated by Alejandro Castellote, Kuxta Kultur Artegunea, San Sebastian 2022 Imagined Documents Curated by Ravi Agarwal, Rencontres d'Arles 2022 2021 VAICA: Indian Contemporary Video Art Festival, online 2021 It Glows Light Curated by Ashish Sahoo and Jasone Miranda-Bilbao, Delhi 2021 Vantage Point: Sharjah 9 Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah 2021 FLOW photo festival, Highland Print Studio, Inverness, Scotland 2021 Mixed Media Musings, Art Heritage, Delhi 2020 A Man, Some Trees and a Dog 5 Million Incidents, Goethe Institute - Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi 2019 Solo: Repairing the Work of Time Curated By Francois Cheval, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China 2019 Catalyst Curated by Rahaab Allana,Jimei x Arles Festival, Xiamen, China 2019 Ellipsis: Between Word & Image, Curated by Rahaab Allana, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur 2018 Ephemeral: New Futures for Passing Images, Serendipity Arts Festival, Curated by Rahaab Allana, Panjim, Goa 2018 Mutations: Indo-French Image Encounters, curated by Rahaab Allana and Francois Cheval, Delhi 2017 Goa Photo, curated by Akshay Mahajan 2017-18 Fòcas India programme: 'Document', Multiple venues in Scotland and India 2016 -17 The Surface of Things - photography in process, Curated by Rahaab Allana, Alliance Francaise, Delhi and Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai 2017 10 artists, Art Heritage, Delhi 2017 2016 Selection: Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, Section: ‘Videotheque’ 2015 Tales & Fables From India & Japan: Animation, Film & Photography, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Yokohama 2013 ‘Ignore The Line, Think Free’, Think Festival, Tehelka, Goa. Promotional Animation Films 2013 Lateral, Kona, New Delhi. Curated By Heidi Fichtner 2013 People Like Us, Studio Group Show, Delhi 2013 Publica Public Arts Festival, Delhi 2012 Matter Group Show, Curated By Deeksha Nath, Gallery Blueprint 12, Delhi 2012 Monitor 8 SAVAC, Toronto, 2012 2011 The Five Senses Two-Person Show With Agathe De Bailliencourt, The Loft, Mumbai 2010 Feminine Recitals Group Show At Exhibit 320, New Delhi. Curated By Veerangana Solanki 2010 Say Everything Group Show at Experimenter, Kolkata 2010 Wide Angle Group Show, Stainless Gallery, presented by Wonderwall, Delhi 2010 Her Work Is Never Done, Gallery BMB, Mumbai. Curated by Bose Krishnamachari 2009 Gennext IV, Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata 2009 The Idea Of The Book, Khoj, Delhi 2008 Building (Dhobi Ghat), Mumbai 2008 Dis.Clocation/s, Open Studio At Spike Island, Bristol 2006 Cartes Postales’, Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France Selected Filmography Konkal Single Channel , animated B&W photographs, HD 1920x1080, 4’ loop, 2024 Sheher, Prakriti, Devi, Ishara Foundation, 2024 A Man, Some Trees and a Dog Animated experiments in-situ. As part of the Five Million Incidents project, Max Mueller Bhavan-Goethe Institut, New Delhi. 2019 Isosceles Forest Single Channel Optical collage, 3' loop Repairing the Work of Time, 2019, China;Catalyst,Jimei x Arles Festival, China; Ephemeral: New Futures for Passing Images, Goa, 2018 2018 A Chair Walks into A Landscape Single Channel Optical collage Mutations- Indo French Image encounters, Delhi 2016 Let me Take you Far Away Double Channel Optical collage The Surface of Things - photography in process, Delhi, Mumbai 2015 ‘Another Land’ Optical Collage Selection At Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, ‘Videotheque’ Section, 2016; ‘Tales & Fables From India & Japan: Animation, Film & Photography’, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Yokohama 2013 ‘2 Promotional Animation Films’ For Think Festival, Goa. Commissioned By Tehelka. 2010-2012 ‘The Isolation Of Pectoralis Major’ Video Collage Loop ‘Publica’ Delhi, 2013; ‘Monitor 8’ SAVAC, Toronto, 2012; ‘Matter’ Gallery Blueprint 12, New Delhi, 2012; ‘Her Work Is Never Done - II’ Gallery BMB, Mumbai., 2010 2010 ‘Flicker’ Video Collage Loop ‘Say Everything’ Gallery Experimenter, Kolkata. 2008 ‘Dis·Location/S’: Toast & Tea, Ms Kirby’s Eyes, Untitled#1, Drawing Text Installed Video Collages At Spike Island, Bristol 2007 ‘Mapping Movement’ Video Collage. Multiple Screenings Worldwide For Project 60x60, 360° Programme By Motiroti, Uk 2006 ‘Cartes Postales’ Video Collage. Galerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France 2006 ‘Hibiscus’, ‘Bougainvilla’, ‘Leaf’ 30 Secs, Colour, Video Collage. 2003 ‘5 Spots For Peace’ 30 Secs, Colour. PeaceWorks, Seagull Foundation For The Arts. 2003 ‘Rainbow Film’ 12.5 Mins. , Colour, Live Action. Produced by The Partnership Foundation, Netherlands. 2002 ‘Self Portrait With A Glass’ 1 Min., Colour, Live Action and Still Photographs. Selection: Cinematexas:Internationa Short Film Festival: Face-Off, 2004 2002 ‘Broomsticks’ 1 Min., Colour, Live Action. Made With A Grant From The Royal Commonwealth Society, London. 1999 ‘Reverie’ * 2.5 Mins. , Colour, Traditional Hand Drawn Animation* Paper, Paint And Photocopies. Selection: Short Film Programme, Short & Sweet, Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, April, 2003 Selection2003: Idpa With The Alliance Francaise De Bombay: Showcasing Indian Women Film Makers 1998 ‘Oops!’ * Film For Children, 3 Mins., Colour, Traditional Hand Drawn Animation* , Paper, Ink And Paint. Part Of Of Nid Student Films Awarded Special Mention, Ottowa Film Festival For Best School Category 3rd Prize For Animation Film, Indian Documentary Producers Association 2001 Selection, Mumbai International Film Festival Part Of Retrospective Package Of Indian Animation At Zagreb 2000* Shot On Kodak Eastman Colour Negative, On The Oxberry Camera, And Edited On Non Linear Editing System, ©Nid Selected Work Experience
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