About This Artwork

The body has a memory. A terrain is the accumulated memory of its soil over eons. It flows, grows, weathers, wrinkles, breaks by its own rules. The grain of the earth is no different from the skin cells that carpet the body, home to layers of emotions and interactions, strata of evolution and metamorphosis. They are both alive in their movement, in the evermore changes that each day brings. The body has its own logic for desiring and destroying. So the terrains. In this series, this metaphor weaves together the earth and the body, each a homeland, each a refuge.

About the Artist

Bonobithi Biswas

A multidisciplinary Indian visual artist, curator and researcher based between Paris and Mumbai, Bonobithi’s synesthetic arts practice interweaves diverse analogue and digital media, chiefly mixed reality, painting and multilingual creative writing to create multisensory storytelling experiences. A multidisciplinary Indian visual artist, curator and researcher based between Paris and Mumbai, Bonobithi is obsessed with trespassing figurative borders. Her synesthetic arts practice interweaves diverse analogue and digital media, chiefly mixed reality, painting and multilingual creative writing to create multisensory storytelling experiences. The thematic focus of her arts practice is the South Asian post-colonial historic-cultural landscape, synesthetic multilingualism, identity of the female body of colour, and intercultural dialogue through shared safe spaces. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Transdisciplinary New Media from Paris College of Art, Paris, France. Having participated in various artist residencies and group and solo exhibitions internationally, Bonobithi’s works have been extensively displayed in cities across Europe and Asia, including the 59th Venice Biennale of Art. She is a member of the multicultural artist collectives COMEX-ARC and WE Collective.