Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022-23 Artwork | Priyageetha Dia

The Sea is a Blue Memory (2022) by Priyageetha Dia
Curated by Shubigi Rao

Through poetic interventions in public space,
speculative narratives, computer-generated
imagery and appropriation of stock photography,
Priyageetha Dia translates historical flashpoints into sensorial environments.

In the video The Sea is a Blue Memory, Dia attends to the journey of indentured labourers, a voyage many associated with fears of the loss of caste, sea-sickness and the miserable living conditions during the several weeks of journey. The ocean is recreated in CGI from different angles, in different moments of day and night, its glimmering surface or its hidden depths becoming a mesmerising object of contemplation. As viewers, we are compelled to look at this vast body of water more and more, again and again, as if we are collectively testing the possibility that the sea is a memory

Thank you National Arts Council SG for supporting this project.

This artwork is currently displayed at Coir Godown, Aspinwall House.
Until 10th April 2023

Video Lab Support- Kiran Nadar Museum of Art