Priya

Priya, 2011, 16mm film ,13 minute,

The composition of the film stock and how it breaks down through vagaries of deterioration from soil and vegetable matter is part of the subject of the film; how this is witnessed through a corresponding action of 16mm film passing through the projector is integral to the viewing experience. A parallel journey is manifested within the body of the dancer and the filmic body. The performance of the dancer gives way to a performance of layers of celluloid disintegrating before us. A parallel journey is manifested within the body of the dancer and the filmic body. The amalgam of the two brings us closer to our own corporeality, but the idea of the finite is counterbalanced by the continuous twirling of the dancer in relation to her hand perpetually gesturing out of frame, away from her centre, back and finally up into the infinite. 

Priya is in the collection of FRAC Lorraine France

Group Exhibitions:
2019/2020 Expo "Syncopes et Extases, vertiges du temps
2018 Lahore Biennale 01
2011MoMa On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century 

Selected Screenings:
2020 Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a life
2019 Rencontres Internationales Regards Hybrides, at Tangente,Montreal 
2014 Tate Britain part of Assembly: Composite II
2012 Artist Tribute: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2011 Figure Becomes Ground: Edinburgh Film Festival