Polaroid photos from I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore, by Shivanjani Lal
Shivanjani lAL
I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore
FRI 20 FEB–SAT 18 APR
Gallery Two | Level 2
Free to attend
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I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore is a new work that explores sounds and images from Shivanjani Lal’s time spent in India, Australia, and Fiji, exploring shorelines and sounds connected to Indenture.
The work is a lamentation, beginning from the shoreline, and soundings that speak to histories of Indenture, grief, and the slippages caused by holding onto histories that are slipping away.
This exhibition forms part of the what it means to remember thematic.
Platform Arts is supported by the City of Greater Geelong, Creative Victoria, Creative Australia, and the Anthony Costa Foundation.
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Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator whose work uses personal grief to account for ancestral loss.
Recent works have used story-telling, objects and video to account for lost stories of Girmitiya (Indenture) from the Indian and Pacific oceans. Truth-telling and monument making has become a focal point of her current research in an attempt to decipher what is lost and the possibilities of futures.
Between 2017-18, Lal sought to globalise her practice with a prolonged stay in India, which led to periods of research in Nepal, Bangladesh and Fiji. She was the 2019 Create New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellow, and the 2020 Georges Mora Fellow. In 2021 she graduated with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London with a Masters in Artists Film and Moving Image. In 2023 she received the QAGOMA Vida Lahey Scholarship. Lal’s work has been exhibited across Australia, and internationally.
Social Media:
https://shivanjanilal.com/