Date: Wednesday 13 Nov., 2024
Time: 04 p.m.
Venue: HSS Conference Hall
Title: Landscape and Meaning
Abstract:
In this presentation, Punjab-based visual artist Shashank Peshawaria will introduce aspects of his lens-based practice, which traces aesthetic, social, and cultural patterns through architecture and landscape. He will discuss the methodologies of his recent works made in Punjab and other parts of north India—encompassing photography, moving image, and sound—that speak to themes of South Asian migration, colonialism, infrastructure, identity and labour. Through pictures, the presentation will highlight Peshawaria’s interest in the poetic and political dimensions of quotidian and vernacular forms, and in the subterranean meanings of land and memory. Peshawaria will outline his artistic approach to particular sites and spaces, including the often overlooked, unknown, or hidden features that define a place. He will also talk about the role of archives and field-based research in his creative process.
Bio:
Shashank Peshawaria is a visual artist from Punjab, India, whose work spans photography and film. He holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, London. His work has been presented at Blueprint12, New Delhi; Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2023, New Delhi; Bishopsgate Institute, London; BFI Southbank, London; Conflictorium, Ahmedabad; The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford; Cork Photo Festival, Cork; South Kilburn Studios, London; and Doomed Gallery, London. It has also been published by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and The Guardian. He has worked in film productions, including Camera Threat (Bernd Lützeler, 2017). He is a recipient of the Creative Interruptions AHRC U.K. artist residency at Preet Nagar, Punjab (2018), the Space118 Fine Art Grant (2021-22), and the Spacehouse Himalayas artist residency at Satoli, Uttarakhand (2024).
