The Weight of our past
(2021) Archival pigment prints of performance
Photographs by Lois Bielefeld
One never really leaves the past behind. It is embedded in us like DNA and the grit under our nails and molds us into who we are. 35 years after leaving my home country India, the complexity and weight of its culture is still pressing. An immigrant’s life is loaded with the responsibility of passing on identity, heritage, expectations and memory of the place that we left behind. It is an exhausting, messy and weighted tangle despite its color and beauty.
Recall and Response
(2020-22) large works on hanji (Korean handmade paper) sizes: 57” x 60” and 60” x 132”
Contained: The memory of things
(2019) Fabric, spices and plaster casts of objects my friends and I brought to the United States when we migrated
