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Paribartana Mohanty

Notes on detour and Potentiality

Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 4:14 | Inde | 2015

Walking towards the commemorative obelisk, the memorial of establishing Delhi as capital of British India, We trace passed the land exactly 101 year after the coronation celebrated there. Nostalgic about the moment in history simultaneously relaxed due to its ruined state, all of our cameras started shooting the actor, unknown character and new encounters. The documented images showed intense moments of repetition and reappearances, where we expose cameras to ourselves in different position, composition and perspective. The video plays with the idea of echo in repeated intervention, engagement and performative ordinary gestures. The cinematic time in loop becomes a still image of walking, looking and hearing as rehearsing, acting bodies and a resurrected site.

SOLO EXHIBITION 2012 Kino is the Name of a Forest, Solo Exhibition, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India EXHIBITIONS 2015 Kochi Biennale Foundation Young Curatorial Award-Fellowship 2016/2017 on the KBF Student’s Biennale. 2015 BLAST! ASIA NOW, Stand SP1, Espace Pierre Cardin, 1 Avenue Gabriel, 75008 Paris. 2015 59th BFI London Film Festival, curated by William Fowler London, United Kingdom. 2015 Rendez-vous Singapour Exposition, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore. 2015 Undivided Mind Part- ii, Art + Science Exhibition, Curated by Lieah Smith, KHOJ international Artist Association, New Delhi, India 2015 Forever Now, Curated by Willoh S. Weiland, Brian Ritche, Thea Baumann and Jeff Khan, Aphids Epic Contemporary Project, Mofo, Hobart 2014 TokyoStory Part- ii, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan 2014 Field Trip Project, Curated by Daisuke Takeya, Tokyo, Japan 2014 Insert- Common Ground Curated by Raqs Media Collective, IGNCA, New Delhi India 2013 Rendez-vous 13, Institute of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon, France 2013 Ideas of the Sublime curated by Gayatri Sinha, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi, India 2012 Sarai Reader 09: Exhibition, Curated by Raqs Media Collective, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India 2012 Video Wednesday II, Curated by Gayatri Sinha, Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2012 Broadening the Canvas: Contemporary Visual Culture of Alternate Sexuality, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Part of Kolkata Rainbow Pride Festival, Kolkata 2012 In Other Words, Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi 2011 Regards Croisés: A Selection of Asian Contemporary Art, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore 2011 Collective Metamorphosis, Curated by Kapil Chopra, Nature Morte, New Delhi 2011 To be continued… The FICA Group Show, Curated by Bhooma Padmanabhan, Volte Gallery, Mumbai 2011 Hong Kong Art Fair, works presented by Nature Morte 2011 Outset Inaugural Exhibition, co-ordinated by Peter Nagy and organized by Feroze Gujral, New Delhi 2010 Drifiting Still, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Art Konsult, New Delhi 2010 ARTIST + NATURE = ART The Sandarbh Workshop and residency. The Lahori Forest, Dadra Nagar & Hawali (UT) India 2010 Present is Now, Curated by Peter Nagy, Bestcollegeart.com 2010 City as Studio: EXB 10.04, Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi. 2010 City as Studio: EXB 10.01, curated by Iram Ghufran and Amitabh Kumar as part of ‘Ten Years of Sarai’, Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi (Feb 15 – March 10) 2010 Renewed Intensity, Curated by Jagannath Panda, B K College of Art, Bhubaneswar 2010 Drifters, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Gallery Beyond, Mumbai (as part of Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, February) 2009 Drifters, Curated by Rahul Bhattacharya, Art Konsult, New Delhi (18 Dec – 10th Jan) 2009 Fantasy, Curated by Sunil Gupta and Gautam Bhan, Nigah Queer Festival, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi. AWARDS / RESIDENCIES 2015 Kochi Biennale Foundation Young Curatorial Award- 16-month Fellowship 2016/2017 on the KBF Student’s Biennale. 2015 T.A.J. RESIDENCY & SKE PROJECTS, Bangalore, India 2015 Undivided Mind- Part II, Art + Science One Month Residency at KHOJ, KHOJ International Artist Association, New Delhi, India. 2014 Writing Intensive, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida, New Delhi 2014 International Creator Residency Program 2013, Tokyo Wander Site, Tokyo, Japan 2013 An Anatomy and Politics of Video Art, A workshop by Marcel Odenbach, Kolkata, India 2011 Three-months residency hosted by Stadt galerie, Bern (Switzerland) in collaboration with Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council) and FICA 2010 Sandarbh Artists Residency, Dadra Nagar and Havelli 2010 EMERGING ARTIST AWARD, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), New Delhi 2010 Awarded ‘the City as Studio’ – Sarai-CSDS Media Lab Associate Fellowship for Contemporary Art and Media Practices and Residency