Dr. Paula Sengupta, born in 1967, is an artist-pedagogue, curator and art writer. She is Professor and currently Head of the Department of Graphics-Printmaking and Dean of the Faculty of Visual Arts,
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Trained as a printmaker, her repertoire includes broadsheets, art books, objects, installations, moving images and community art projects. Her work addresses gender binaries, enforced migration, loss of home, heritage and landscape and a concern for conservation of societies, communities and ecologies. Her language is distinctly feminine, therefore laying claim to methods and materials that underline feminist thought.
The story of Exile is the story of survival, not just of bodies, but of identities and ideas. In ‘Into Exile’, the Tibetan diaspora is not merely chronicled—it is lived, seen, and felt through the juxtaposition of visual fragments and the resounding echo of memory. It begins with the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet in 1959, an act that sparked a mass migration of over 1,30,000 Tibetans, who carried not just belongings but the weight of an imperilled culture.(..)
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