Screening
Saturday 20th September 20h and Saturday 27th September 20h
“A Funeral Held in Air” is an excerpt from Sujatro Ghosh’s ongoing time-based work exploring how climate devours livelihoods, landscapes, and memory in the Sundarbans of West Bengal.
For nearly a decade, he has been documenting and returning to the eroding island of Ghoramara, of which nearly one-quarter has already disappeared—barely 80 kilometers from his home in the Sundarbans. Here, among the locals, official papers and registrations hold little weight; as the land shrinks and nature takes over, people live instead through trust, kinship, and the careful holding of memory.
This excerpt, shown at the Gängeviertel in Hamburg, marks the first public glimpse of his long-term project.
In Cooperation with Dagmar Rauwald, Artist-Curator MOM art space
Sujatro Ghosh (b. 1993), Multi Disciplinary Artist-Activist. His practice attempts to initiate a conversation about social action and political protest which produces the conditions for othered voices to be heard. Sujatro’s work combines conceptual and material adventures produced by radical thought primarily around queer rights, diasporic tensions, women rights, climate change, gastro-politics and transnational migration through the mediums of film, performance, poetry, sonic installations, fabric works and photography. His current practice deals with the relationship between food, memory, violence, ecology and justice.
Sujatro is always moving between geographies, materials, actions and memory to produce an image of an inclusive and equitable future. In my artistic practice, my works are cast as conduits between what exists and what is possible.
https://sujatroghosh.com/
MOM art space 