Priyadarshini Ravichandran
Chennai
Priyadarshini Ravichandran is a photographer working closely with recurrent themes emerging in relationships that root, reveal or unsettle her. She is compelled to tell stories of women, their lives and the land. Poetics and interconnectivity inform her practice. She seeks to collaborate with researchers, artists, friends, institutions, trees and animals- placing her in unexpected intersections. She received the Parasol prize by the V&A museum and the Prix pour la Photographie du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
Sudaroli
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Sudaroli is a studied repository of images addressing subtleties of psychological, social and economic violence inflicted upon women, marginalised genders and their stories of resilience.
Research in rural-urban India states that 1 in 3 Indian women report having experienced violence in varying frequencies and most often trans and non-binary people’s afflictions remain unrecorded.
Provoked by these studies, Sudaroli attempts to reflect the connected, relational and non-linear nature of gender based violence as a reminder to confront the uneasy and stand up to claim power in compassionate ways.
Subverting traditional painting styles of South India, which are strictly reserved for royalty or the gods, creating a coloured altar or sanctum with thick paints to honour, centre and bring undivided attention to these silenced struggles.
The work was initially produced in collaboration with a team of researchers led by Swarna Rajagopalan - The Prajnya Trust,Chennai and Philippa Williams - Queen Mary University, London.