Park, G (2022) Synaptic visualisations: reading ‘the global’ in and through the work of Sutapa Biswas. Art History, 45 (3). pp. 674-691. ISSN 0141-6790
Abstract
This essay focuses on the work of British contemporary artist Sutapa Biswas (born 1962). Over the past forty years, Biswas has engaged, through film, photography and other media, with the complex structures and aesthetics of the global, in relation to her own migratory experience. Having come to Britain from West Bengal as a child, the artist's return in the 1980s to the place of her birth precipitated a series of works that deal with the complexity of homeland and identity, memory and desire, while also challenging a Eurocentric vision of the world. Through an analysis of two film works, Kali (1984–85) and Birdsong (2004), and by focusing on Biswas's own conceptualization of the synaptic, this essay addresses the way in which the artist challenges idealized notions of post-colonial unity, while also pointing to the possibilities of seeing and knowing across different vantage points.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Association for Art History 2022. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2022 10:28 |
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2023 11:50 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-8365.12657 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182629 |