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Portia Roy in Conversation: What Happens When an Artist Refuses to Look Away
In our recent session, where we had a conversation with artist Portia Roy around "Not an Extra", our ongoing virtual exhibition. What followed was one of the most genuine discussions we have had around art, politics, and the very personal act of making something out of frustration, love, and a refusal to stop paying attention. Just honest, sometimes uncomfortable, always illuminating reflection on what it means to make work about the world as it actually is. Where the Title N
Artlune
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Home Is Where I Prefer to Die
When Portia Roy talks about migration, she doesn’t do it through statistics or theory. She tells you about her grandmother. Her grandmother left Bangladesh in her twenties, caught in the upheaval of India's partition. She came to India, built a life, raised a family, and by every measure, made it work. But Roy remembers something else. Till the very last day of her life, her grandmother's one wish was to go back. Back to Bangladesh. Back to the place she had left nearly seve
Artlune
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Not an Extra: Inside the Opening of a South Asian Art Exhibition
Before introducing the exhibition, Vikas Garg opened with a line from feminist scholar Bell Hooks that he felt captured everything Not an Extra is about. "To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body." Simple. And yet when you sit with it, it opens up into something much larger. Because that is exactly what this exhibition is asking us to think about: What does it mean to exist within a structure, to be part of it, to sustain it, and yet never be
Artlune
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