Graduate Studies
Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design (MA, MDes and MFA)
Par Nair
performative films
Performance
2022
performative films projects onto wall, installed with rug and poetry books.
This series of performative films seek out lost memories that reveal intimacy as well as estrangement. By performing with sounds, cherished objects and memories from her past, the artist investigates loss, longing and displaced melancholia. She performs with objects that carry memory like bindis, braided hair, a rug, turmeric, kumkumam and letters from her grandfather.
Work by
Par Nair
installation, oil painting, performative film, digital collage, embroidery
“I investigate and explore melancholia in diaspora using decolonial methods and a return to ancestral knowledge and practices. Through objects and memories that are both intimate and estranged, I wish...” [More]
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