Posted on 2 March 2023
Six Stations of a Life Pursued: Suture, Untitled, VI, 2018.
Pigment print, 30 x 30.2 in (76.2 x 76.6 cm)
Based on photographs by Gireesh GV
Photomontage: Hilal Ahmed Khan
Photograph courtesy: Vivan Sundaram & PHOTOINK
Six Stations of a Life Pursued: Shelter, Untitled, V, 2022.
Pigment print, 50.8 x 66 in (129 x 167.6 cm)
Photographed by Imran Kokiloo
Performed by Harish Khanna
Lighting: Anay Mann
Costume design: Pratima Pandey
Structure: Shamlal Panchal
Photograph courtesy: Vivan Sundaram & PHOTOINK
SSAF’s co-founder and managing trustee Vivan Sundaram is one of 30 artists commissioned to develop new work for ‘Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present’, conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi.
“Okwui’s proposition suggests a narrative that is dynamic yet recursive in an ethically accountable way. I present a photography-based project, Six Stations of a Life Pursued (2022), a choreography of bodies that have undergone violence, experienced incarceration, and lived through mourning. The sixth ‘station’ signifies a journey premised on the historical and rehearsed with activist resolve.” — Vivan Sundaram
(https://www.sepiaeye.com/news-archive/vivansundaram-sharjah23)