Auto Ethnography Through Objects, 2022, 2023
These moving image works are part of a recurring project – Auto Ethnography Through Objects – which mark my body in the socio-political space it occupies through objects, at different points of my life.
Weightlifter documents a difficult, precarious, uncomfortable moment in time, made heavy by grief, breakdowns, depression and helplessness. It records the guilt and struggle of breathing as a world collapses around myself.
Fire-eater and Loser record more difficult feelings. Rage, shame, self sabotage piled on over years quietly excavated and released through the process of making.
Technical Support: Ashwini Samant and Drashti Gala
Weightlifter was made as part of the Space 118 Award, 2022