Pritika Chowdhry

I am a practitioner of counter-memory, and I create sculptural installations that are anti-memorials of traumatic historical events.

Through my art projects, I present narratives elided from dominant cultural discourse to disrupt hegemonic collective memories.

​​I have founded the Counter-Memory Project and Partition Memorial Project. Transnational in scope, my works comprise sculptural art installations that memorialize difficult memories, such as partitions of countries, civil and military wars, riots, border violence, genocides, and terrorist attacks.

​​My large-scale sculptures and site-sensitive installations reference the body to memorialize unbearable and difficult memories.

​​I seek to connect seemingly disparate geopolitical contexts because it is important to bring bridges into being. Counter-memories of communities and nations provide the viscera with which I build these bridges in my work.




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