Priya Sen | Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022-23

"I started to work with photos more and then I realized that I couldn't! That stillness was too difficult for me. Now I work with video as like I move with my body." - Priya Sen, while walking us through the journey of creating her artwork.

Priya Sen is a filmmaker and artist who works across film and video, sound and installation. She explores forms for tenuousness and ambiguity within the realist potentials of nonfiction film. Her practice might be described as eclectic and itinerant, and plays with narrative modes and cinematic gestures.

Over the last two years in Delhi (and sometimes in Calcutta), during and after the anti-CAA protests (in response to a government amendment passed in 2019 that provoked outrage for its religious discrimination and exclusion of Muslims), and during and after the pandemic lockdowns, Sen wrote, filmed and recorded, as days and nights turned from collective rage and exuberance to withdrawal and solitude. The video essay 'No Stranger At All' is composed from notes, recordings, slivers of prayers, non-intended sound, stranger love, lamentations and extreme longing, in a city that absorbs, mirrors, tears apart and simultaneously allays remorse and euphoria.

Sen’s artwork is displayed currently at Bungalow, Aspinwall House, Fort Kochi.
Until 10th April 2023

Thank you Experimenter Generator - Cooperative Art Production Fund for supporting this artwork

Video Lab Support- Kiran Nadar Museum of Art