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Another Land is an optical collage of memories, snatches of conversation, verses of a poem, creating a dreamlike journey. This work has been built around found materials like photographs, slides, camera footage, scribbles and drawings. The sum of this memorabilia is collected to evoke an intensely personal trancelike journey, which transports you through various vistas. I have interpreted the material to create almost a mythical space, an imaginary fable, where all that is recognizable assumes another quality altogether. This is my re-imagining of nostalgia and memory and what it means to individuals. Just as we augment and embellish memory with time; so too, this work takes fragments of remembrance and imparts another quality to them. So that, what is remembered changes and recreates new stories, new trajectories in a way that creates a fantasy - a mythopoeic fable.

Sukanya Ghosh is an artist, animation filmmaker and designer. She is an independent practitioner and enjoys working with popular imagery, poetry and the moving image. Born in Calcutta, she has a BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda and an AEPEP in Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She has been the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Award, the Sarai Independent Fellowship, commissions from the Royal Commonwealth Society and Motiroti, UK. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Khoj, New Delhi; Spike Island, Bristol; and AIR Vallauris, France. Her works have been part of several shows both nationally and internationally. She managed arts programming at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, Calcutta for several years and has also been involved in various design projects including publicity design for film, book, exhibition and theatre design over the years.