Artist: Arpita Akhanda

a. ‘The Fall’, 2021.

Medium: Paper weaving of pre and post-partition map.

Dimensions: 60 x 126 inches approx.

Part of The Trifecta of Movement at Exhibit 320, New Delhi.

Image Courtesy: Exhibit 320.

Text Courtesy: Adwait Singh.

Description:

The Fall highlights the drama around Partition and its summary and somewhat absurd enforcement by situating the critical moment between the weft and warp of pre-and post- Partition realities.

The ‘fall’ here could refer to a fall from grace or a setback to the possibility of a unified nation, as well as the unsettling feeling of free-falling, of drifting without an anchor, that is the legacy of any migrant.

b. ‘The Living Scar’, 2021

Performance video & text from the artist's diary

04:54 minutes

Part of শরীর | Körper : The memory collector, Kunstrum, Aarau, Switzerland

Video edition 3/5

Image courtsey: The Artist

The living scar is a video of two scars that the artist tattooed on her body in response to the date 17th August. 

Through this performance, she identifies her body with the dissected lands and the marks as a continuity of scars of living history in her country. Her body not only carries these two historical marks/scars, but now she lives inside these two scars both physically and conceptually.

Video link-https://youtu.be/wIR4xsjh5EY