SUDIPTA MODI
Selected Exhibitions
SILENCE
Collect Art Gallery Tiblisi, Georgia
Silence a group show curated by Collect Art Gallery Tiblisi, Georgia
CESSATION
LuminoirArt Gallery
London United Kingdom
Cessation a group show curated by LuminoirArt Gallery London, UK
INTERCONTINENTAL BIENAL
Miami, USA
Intercontinental Bienal is a collaborative, constantly moving project and a cross continent event connecting people through Art.
Alongside 400 hundred artist I have shown my work.
Open Studio
Nine Elms, London UK
I have been invited by Open Arts to participate in the Lambeth Open studio event in 2025.
This show was a brilliant experience to participate collaborating and meeting amazing artists. The event was a great success as we got 200 visitors and distinguished guests attended this show.
SONGS OF SPRING
Asia House
Cavendish Square London, UK
I have been invited by Sama Arts to participate in a Three artist show at Asia House.
This show was a brilliant experience as collaborating and meeting amazing artists. The event was a great success as we got 400 visitors and distinguished guests attended this show.
INDEX
Crypt Gallery London
Index is a group show held at Crypt Gallery St. Pancras London, UK
I KNEW WHO I WAS
Free Space Gallery Kentish Town London, UK
A group show to respond to site supported by Free Space Gallery.
This show was a brilliant experience as collaborating and meeting amazing artists. The event was a great success as we got 600 visitors and distinguished guests attended this show.
SHIFT
Menier Gallery
London UK
A gallery based exhibition SHIFT at Menier Gallery Southwark, London we all were able to show our enthusiasm. The gallery has a high street presence and it was first show outside the college of the MFA program.
In the show I presented for a performance based work ‘How to Explain Art (Picture) to a Dead Wire (Hare)’ a re-enactment of the phenomenal performance of Beuys. I designed and made a costume everyday, which prepared me for the performance.
The curators allowed me to work on the performance piece everyday of the show as I was interested to bringing a dialogical space to the site working with body.
Meanwhile I was walking along the Thames and I encountered a wonderful sound/music. Tracing the sound I reached near the Southwark Bridge and met the musician Rabimsha. Instantly I asked as if he is interested to work or collaborate with me for my art performance. He hesitantly exchanged the contact as he was not sure what exactly the work will be.
I returned home without any hope.
The day of Private View I received a phone call from the musician asking the detail of the time and location of the gallery.
He turned up as we performed on that evening.
Photograph by Neomi
OPEN STUDIO
Open Arts Project
London UK
An Open Studio event in London where artists open their studio/house for public.
In this event paintings, drawings and an intimate, site-specific installation 'Vernissage' was exhibited in artist's own bathroom.
Visitors were invited in to walk in the bathroom, see the art installation and to enjoy artists living experience alongside of art practice.
There was 200 visitors visited this event marked one of the most debatable and successful event.
ANNUAL SHOW ART TRUST
Birla Art & Culture Museum
Kolkata India
An annual show in Kolkata with notable artists
In this event paintings, drawings and a intimate, installation was exhibited.
A SOLO SHOW
Chitrakoot Art Gallery Kolkata
A solo show in Kolkata Chitrakoot Art Gallery, one of the oldest art gallery of India which has been promoting art and providing space for versatile artistic practice.
Residency at Art Lacuna Space
A report
During the summer term we had a gallery visit conducted by course leader Edwina Fitzpatrick as a South London art map ecology the artists runs a space called Art Lacuna near Peckham Station.
The space provides a work space for artists and offers a gallery based show opportunity. We MFA artists organised a workshop led by curator Lucy Day and a critique discussion by Edwina Fitzpatrick and Anne-marie Creamer on the third day of the residency.
For one week of the residency I focused on my research to learn more about the ecology of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Group of the Indian Ocean, I visited last December. I collected the entire list of flora and fauna of this Island. Started working on my photo novel by using software program PNG and Photoshop.
At the time I came across about an article of about a tribe Boa Sr. A report by Ishaan Tharoor published in the Times News India ‘Off the coast of India, Another Language Dies’.
In the article he mentioned an indigenous woman who dies with her language as she was the last member of a community named Boa. Additionally the article expresses concern with the community which is dependent on forest and mentions ‘ Boa Sr was in effect their last link to the olden days. "It's the end of thousands upon thousands of years of history," says Miriam Ross, spokeswoman for Survival International, a London-based NGO that defends the rights of tribal peoples. "A whole way of looking at the world is finished, and there's no way of bringing it back."
Further he writes "There's a consensus [among linguists] that we are seeing an unprecedented pace of language extinction. And it is accelerating," says David Harrison, a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and co-founder of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Of the world's roughly 7,000 spoken languages, over half are spoken by only 0.2% of all the people on earth. Nearly 80% of the world's population speaks just 83 languages, a proportion that is growing as globalization and urbanization encourage migrants and rural outliers to learn the dominant tongue in lieu of their own. Every 14 days, estimates Harrison's institute, a language dies.
This article is worrisome and, I pondered we are developing, civilizing the world or eradicating destroying our roots (!) What will be an achievable future by running an engine based civilization.