A Bell Rings Across The Valley
12 April 2022 - 26 June 2022
Image: Devika Bilimoria. Courtesy the artist.
Image: Devika Bilimoria. Courtesy the artist.
When
12 April 2022 - 26 June 2022
Region
Metropolitan
Venue
Theme
History
Accessibility
Wheelchair access
Price
Free
A bell rings out across the valley. A deep resonance that begins in the Himalayas and echoes out across the Bay of Bengal, growing in vibration and meaning as it sings out. Complex and tender, a many-headed figure forms, both of alarm and joy.
Photography’s roots here can be traced to empire, anthropology and journalism. The region takes these roots and shapeshifts these understandings and new stories form. What does Contemporary Photography look like in South Asia? What stories are being told?
Five artists have been invited from across South Asia and its diaspora to speak of complex experiences of identity, heritage and change.
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Curator
Shivanjani Lal (AU / FIJI)
Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator. Her work explores personal grief to account for ancestral loss. Exploring narratives of indenture and migratory histories from the Indian and Pacific oceans, works uses story-telling, objects and video to account for lost histories and cede futures for healing. She is the recipient of the 2019 Create New South Wales Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, was a 2020 Studio artist at Parramatta Artists Studios and the 2020 Georges Mora Fellow. Lal’s work has been shown and curated work in Australia, New Zealand, India, United Kingdom, Barbados and France.
![Image: Ashfika Rahman, [Files of the disappeared], 2018-ongoing. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ashfrika-Rahman-Files-of-the-disappeared-2018-ongoing-2-171x200.jpg "Ashfika Rahman")
![Image: Sheelasha Rajbhandari, [I Still See That Same Old House Of Ours In My Dreams], 2019. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Sheelasha-Rajbhandari_I-Still-See-That-Same-Old-House-Of-Ours-In-My-Dreams-200x140.jpeg "Sheelasha Rajbhandari_I Still See That Same Old House Of Ours In My Dreams")
![Image: Devika Bilimoria, [Pool Hall], 2018. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Pool-Hall2018_Devika_Bilimoria_300ppi-WEB-200x113.jpg "Pool-Hall(2018)_Devika_Bilimoria_300ppi WEB")
![Image: Shwe Wutt Hmon, [I Do Miss Hospital Visit]. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/I_Do_Miss_Hospital_Visit_2-Shwe-Wutt-Hmon-200x139.jpg "I_Do_Miss_Hospital_Visit_2 Shwe Wutt Hmon")