Lumen: The ghosts she summons, 2021
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Lumen: The ghosts she summons
Lumen, 2019-2021. Single channel projection, colour with 5.1 sound. Duration: 30 min. 8K and 4K digital format, mastered onto 4K. Sutapa Biswas © Sutapa Biswas. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2026. Produced in collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella, London, and Bristol Museums. Realised with generous support from the Art Fund UK Award 2019, Kettle’s Yard and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. With additional support from Autograph abp, London and Arts Council England.
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Ben Luke A brush with… Sutapa Biswas. Artist Interview / Podcast
The Art Newspaper. Published 22 November 2023·PodcastSutapa Biswas in Conversation with David Olusoga, Chaired by Sarah Munro, Director, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. Publication date: 19.2.2022·VideoLauren Elkin, Profile: Recognition at Last After Decades of Decolonizing Art: Sutapa Biswas is the Subject of two major exhibitions in Britain that explore the country’s imperial legacy
New York Times. October 15, 2021·ArticleRachel Spence: Sutapa Biswas – a pioneering artist of race, exile and resistance. Arts Review, Sutapa Biswas solo exhibition Lumen: Sutapa Biswas, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, UK
Financial Times, January 11, 2022·ReviewLaura Cumming: Annicka Yi’s Turnine Hall; Sutapa Biswas: Lumen – review
The Observer. Sunday 17 September, 2021·ReviewSutapa Biswas, in Gill Park, 'Synaptic Visualizations: Reading ‘the Global’ in and through the Work of Sutapa Biswas'.
Art History, Ed. by Dorothy Price. Number 45, Vol 3, June 2022. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, and Boston, USA. ISSN: 0141-6790. ISBN: 1467-8365 ·ArticleSkye Sherwin, Review: A new exhibition showcases an artist who has spent four decades shattering Asian stereotypes and highlighting women’s untold stories
The Guardian, Monday 11 October, 2021 ·ReviewLumen: Sutapa Biswas. Solo exhibition, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. Installation views. © Sutapa Biswas. All rights reserved. DACS 2026. Photo: Rob Harris
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UKSomething Curated, Interview: Pioneering British Indian Artist Sutapa Biswas on Her New Film Commission ‘Lumen’.
By Something Curated. An online Publication, 18 June 2021·InterviewJoanna Cresswell, Profile: Sutapa Biswas, The Indian born artist reflects on a life fearlessly redrawing the boundaries of feminism, colonialism and art
Elephant Magazine, 16 July 2021 ·ArticleKabir Jhala, Sutapa Biswas: ‘Our reckoning with empire has recently begun, but we’ve only scratched the surface’. Ahead of two major UK shows, the British Indian artist discusses her new work and her role in the Black British Arts movement.
The Art Newspaper, 24 June 2021·InterviewSutapa Biswas, in Film and Video Umbrella (FVU), 'Lumen' Sutapa Biswas.
Film and Video Umbrella (FVU), UK - OnlineAnna McNay, Sutapa Biswas – interview: ‘I felt questioning established systems of knowledge and power was as vital as breathing’.
Studio International, 24.6.2021·ArticleMillie Walton, Two Major Solo Shows Celebrate the Work of Sutapa Biswas
Trebuchet Magazine, 19.3.2021·ReviewAdrian Searle, Exhibitions not to be missed in 2021, The Guardian
The Guardian, 31.12.2020·Review