27/08/2025
For the first time, I have developed and curated a massive installation (46ft x 36ft) of my work, 'Drawn into two which way home?' for the Pennsylvania College of Technology
The installation is immersive, a trail of rooms inviting the audience to enter and experience it through visual and sensory mediums like photography, textiles, audio, thread, mirrors, barb wire, and typography.
The works have been selected amongst 1100 pitches made by artists worldwide. The fellowship selects only two artists per year. And yes mentioning of all this I haven't done this alone. Thankyou for ideating the installation with me. Shukriya .photo for all your help and support. In the end always grateful to Penny, the gallery director and the university for bringing this to life.
This immersive, research oriented art installation is based on my long term documentary work ‘Drawn into two, which way home?’ (2018-ongoing). ‘Drawn into two, which way home?’ focuses on the intergenerational trauma, memory, and displacement within South Asian communities as a result of the Partition of India and Pakistan of 1947. It is a newfangled visual journey into the post partitioned Punjab, often hidden or ignored by mainstream narratives. It portrays identity crisis, drug abuse, violence, displacement, love across borders, religious fundamentalism, terrorism, and the silences of female oppression lingering in border households. It is a tale of a Punjab in constant search for identity, where images metaphorically embodies lost memories, reforged identities, and corroded histories.
The exhibition will be on until October 1st 2025.
